Original meaning: magpie
Pictograph of a bird with its two wings opened. Based on the original meaning "magpie", now written as 鵲. The current meaning "shoe" is a phonetic loan.
Character Evolution
Component uses
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | sjek | s.qʰAk | slipper, shoe |
| tshjak | s.qʰak (dialect: *s.qʰ> MC tsh-, *-ak > -jak) | slipper, shoe |
說文解字
《說文》：“舄，也。象形。，篆文舄从隹、。”
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)