翘班
qiào​bān

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翘 qiào turn up Simplified

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

Components

羽
羽 Meaning component
yǔ feather
尧
尧 Sound component
yáo a legendary ancient emperor-sage

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

班 bān group

Original meaning: divide

Depicts a knife (刂) cutting a gem into two halves (玨), based on the original meaning "to divide". The meaning later shifted to "division", "group", and "team".

Components

玨
玨 Iconic component
jué two pieces of jade joined together
刂
刂 Iconic component
dāo knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.


Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Xin 9-23 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartpaenpˤ<r>an divide, distribute

說文解字

《說文》：“班，分瑞玉。从玨，从刀。”

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)

翹 qiào turn up Traditional

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

Components

羽
羽 Meaning component
yǔ feather
堯
堯 Sound component
legendary ancient emperor-sage

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartgjiew[ɡ]ew (failure to palatalize is unexplained)long tail-feather; raise
Zhengzhangɡew
ɡews
Unicodeghiɛu

說文解字

尾長毛也。从羽堯聲。

Sources

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