粤剧 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

Yuèjù

Cantonese opera

yuè Guangdong and Guangxi provinces Simplified

No origin information available for this character yet.

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

jù severe, dramatic, theatrical play Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 居 represents the sound. Simplified form of 劇.

Components

居 Sound component

jū live

刂 Meaning component

dāo knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Sources

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

Guangdong and Guangxi provinces Traditional

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 Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	hjwot	[ɢ]ʷat	generous, favorable
Zhengzhang		ɢʷad

說文解字

亏也。審愼之詞者。从亏从宷。《周書》曰：“粤三日丁亥。”

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

jù severe, dramatic, theatrical play Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 豦 represents the sound.

Components

豦 Sound component

jù, qú a wild boar

刂 Meaning component

dāo knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		ɡaɡ
Unicode	ghiæk

說文解字

《說文新附》：“劇，尤甚也。从刀，未詳，豦聲。”

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)