积水 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

jīshuǐ

standing water

jī accumulate, store up Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the meaning and 只 represents the sound. Simplified form of 積.

Components

禾 Meaning component

hé grain stalk

只 Sound component

zhǐ, zhī only

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode

shuǐ water

Depicts the flow of water in a river.

Character Evolution

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

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Component uses

Meaning (4 of 14 verified)

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Iconic (8)

益泰泉尿沓盥彔眔

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	sywijX	s.turʔ (E dialect: -r > -j)	water; river

說文解字

《說文》：“水，準也。北方之行。象眾水並流，中有微陽之气也。”

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.795
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

jī accumulate, store up Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the meaning and 責 represents the sound.

Components

禾 Meaning component

hé grain stalk

責 Sound component

zé responsibility

Change in sound

積 and 責 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
積 tsjek
責 tsreak

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Warring States 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Xin 9-23 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsjek	[ts]ek	accumulate

說文解字

《說文》：“積，聚也。从禾。責聲。”

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)