粗笨 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

cūbèn

clumsy

cū rough, coarse

Phonosemantic compound. 米 represents the meaning and 且 represents the sound.

Components

米 Meaning component

mǐ rice

且 Sound component

qiě moreover

Change in sound

粗 and 且 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
粗 tshu
且 tsjo

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tshu	Nə-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
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

bèn foolish

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

Components

⺮ Meaning component

zhú bamboo

⺮ is a component form of 竹.

本 Sound component

běn root

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	pɯːnʔ
	bɯːnʔ

說文解字

《說文》：“笨，竹裏也。从竹，本聲。”

Sources

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

粗 cū rough, coarse

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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笨 bèn foolish

Components

Character Evolution

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cū rough, coarse

bèn foolish