cū​fěi

Chinese plum-yew

rough, coarse

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
rice
Sound component
qiě moreover
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttshuNə-s.r̥ˤa coarse, thick (as hair)

說文解字

《說文》:“粗,疏也。从米,且聲。”

Sources

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

fěi type of yew

Components

Meaning component
tree

tree

Sound component
fěi bandits

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangpɯlʔ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang