罄竭 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

qìng exhaust

Phonosemantic compound. 缶 represents the meaning and 殸 represents the sound.

Components

缶 Meaning component

fǒu pottery

殸 Sound component

qìng, kēng, shēng stone chimes

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	khengH	[kʰ]ˤeŋ-s	empty; exhaustively
Zhengzhang		kʰeːŋs

說文解字

器中空也。从缶殸聲。殸，古文磬字。《詩》云：“缾之罄矣。”

Sources

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

jié put forth great effort

Phonosemantic compound. 立 represents the meaning and 曷 represents the sound.

Components

立 Meaning component

lì stand

曷 Sound component

hé, è, hè why? what? where?

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	gjet	N-[k](r)at	exhaust (v.); dry up
Zhengzhang		ɡrad
		ɡad
Unicode	ghyɛt

說文解字

負舉也。从立曷聲。

Sources

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