翘望 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

qiào turn up Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 羽 represents the meaning and 尧 represents the sound. Simplified form of 翹.

Components

羽 Meaning component

yǔ feather

尧 Sound component

yáo a legendary ancient emperor-sage

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

wàng, wang to look at

Pictograph of a person standing up (𡈼) and gazing at the moon (月). 亡 is a sound component.

Components

亡 Sound component

wáng death

月 Iconic component

yuè, yue moon

𡈼 Iconic component

tǐng, tíng, zhēng stand upright

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	mjang	maŋ	look at from a distance
	mjangH	maŋ-s	look at from a distance

說文解字

《說文》：“望，出亡在外，望其還也。从亡，朢省聲。”

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)

qiào turn up Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 羽 represents the meaning and 堯 represents the sound.

Components

羽 Meaning component

yǔ feather

堯 Sound component

legendary ancient emperor-sage

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	gjiew	[ɡ]ew (failure to palatalize is unexplained)	long tail-feather; raise
Zhengzhang		ɡew
		ɡews
Unicode	ghiɛu

說文解字

尾長毛也。从羽堯聲。

Sources

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

翘 qiào turn up Simplified

Components

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望 wàng, wang to look at

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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翹 qiào turn up Traditional

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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qiào turn up Simplified

wàng, wang to look at

qiào turn up Traditional