Yún​dāng Hú

Yundang Lake

yún, xūn tall bamboo Simplified

Components

Meaning component
zhú bamboo

bamboo

Sound component
yuán member

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

dāng tall bamboo Simplified

Components

Meaning component
zhú bamboo

bamboo

Sound component
dāng, dàng, dang to match

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

a lake

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

is a component form of .

Sound component
beard

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthu[g]ˤa lake

說文解字

《說文》:“湖,大陂也。从水,胡聲。揚州浸有五湖。浸,川澤所仰以灌溉也。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica

tall bamboo Traditional

Components

Meaning component
zhú bamboo

bamboo

Sound component
yuán member

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɢun

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang

tall bamboo Traditional

Components

Meaning component
zhú bamboo

bamboo

Sound component
dāng, dàng, dang to match

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangtaːŋ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang