yí​yè

pancreatic juice

pancreas

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
ròu meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of .

Sound component
ancient barbarian tribes

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhanglil

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang

sap

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

is a component form of .

Sound component
night

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartyekɢrAkfluid
Zhengzhanglaːɡ
Unicodeiɛk

說文解字

𧗁也。从水夜聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica