磨床 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

móchuáng

grinder

mó, mo, mò grind

Phonosemantic compound. 石 represents the meaning and 麻 represents the sound.

Components

石 Meaning component

shí stone

麻 Sound component

má, ma hemp

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	ma	mˤaj	rub, grind
	maH	mˤaj-s	grinding stone
Zhengzhang		maːl
		maːls
Unicode	mɑ

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica

chuáng bed

Depicts a bed (爿) made from wood (木). Originally written as 爿 or 牀.

Components

爿 Sound Iconic component

pán, qiáng piece of wood

Depicts a bed.

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 爿 than it was in ancient scripts.

木 Meaning component

mù tree

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	dzrjang	k.dzraŋ	bed
Zhengzhang		zraŋ
Unicode	jrhiɑng

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.489-490漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang