票箱
piào​xiāng

ballot box

票 piào slip of paper or bamboo

Original meaning: leaping flames

Phonosemantic compound. A remnant of 要 represents the sound and 火 represents the meaning. Based on the original meaning "leaping flames". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

要
要 SoundRemnant component
yào, yāo want
火
火 Iconic component
huǒ fire
Change in meaning
火 hints at the original meaning of 票, "leaping flames", which is no longer the most common meaning of 票 in modern Mandarin.
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 火 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (2 of 20 verified)

飘漂镖嫖瞟瓢剽缥膘嘌骠鳔螵鏢縹鰾瘭飄標摽

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartphjiewpʰew leaping flames (Shuōwén)

說文解字

《說文》：“，火飛也。从火、。與同意。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

箱 xiāng box

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 相 represents the sound.

Components

⺮
⺮ Meaning component
zhú bamboo

⺮ is a component form of 竹.

相
相 Sound component
xiāng, xiàng mutual

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartsjangC.[s]aŋ box (of a carriage)

說文解字

《說文》：“箱，大車牝服也。从竹，相聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)