胃囊 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

wèináng

gastric pouch

wèi stomach

The top component is a pictograph of the stomach. The bottom component ⺼ (flesh) is a common component in body parts.

Components

◎ Iconic component

characterless component

Depicts the stomach. Modern form looks like unrelated 田.

⺼ Meaning component

ròu meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC

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

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (3 of 7 verified)

谓渭喟猬謂蝟彙

Remnant (1)

彙

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	hjw+jH	[ɢ]ʷə[t]-s	stomach

說文解字

《說文》：“胃，穀府也。从肉、。象形。”

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)

náng, nāng bag

Phonosemantic compound. 襄 represents the sound and 橐 represents the meaning.

Components

橐 Iconic Remnant component

tuó, dù, luò a sack

Depicts a tied bag with a bottom.

襄 Sound Remnant component

xiāng aid

Change in sound

囊 and 襄 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
囊 nang
襄 sjang

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (2 of 4 verified)

囔馕攮饢

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	nang	nˤaŋ	sack, bag

說文解字

《說文》：“囊，橐也。从省，襄省聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 裘錫圭 "Chinese Writing" p.240-241李学勤《字源》p.557-558
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

胃 wèi stomach

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (3 of 7 verified)

Remnant (1)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

囊 náng, nāng bag

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (2 of 4 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

wèi stomach

náng, nāng bag