腐朽 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

fǔxiǔ HSK7

decadent

fǔ, fu rotten, decay

Phonosemantic compound. 府 represents the sound and 肉 represents the meaning.

Components

府 Sound component

fǔ government

肉 Meaning component

ròu meat

meat

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	bjuX	[b](r)oʔ	rotten

說文解字

《說文》：“腐，爛也。从肉，府聲。”

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)

xiǔ decayed

The wood of a dying 丂 tree 木

Components

木 Meaning component

mù tree

丂 Meaning component

kǎo, qiǎo, yú axe handle

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	xjuwX	qʰ(r)uʔ	rot, decay
Zhengzhang		qʰluʔ
Unicode	xiǒu

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica