耶酥 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

yé, yē, ye ye (sound)

Corruption of 邪, with the 牙 component replaced with 耳.

牙 Sound component

yá tooth

Corrupted to 耳.

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 牙 than it was in ancient scripts.

⻏ Meaning component

yì city

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		laː
Unicode	ia

Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the meaning and 酉 represents the sound.

禾 Meaning component

hé grain stalk

酉 Sound component

yǒu wine

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	sŋaː