苦迭打 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

kǔ bitter

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 古 represents the sound.

Components

艹 Meaning component

cao, cǎo grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

古 Sound component

gǔ old

Character Evolution

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

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楛

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楛

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	khuX	kʰˤaʔ	bitter

說文解字

大苦，苓也。从艸古聲。

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)

dié, yì, dá repeatedly

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 失 represents the sound.

Components

辶 Meaning component

chuò walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

失 Sound component

shī lose

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	det	lˤi[t]	alternate (v.)
Zhengzhang		l'iːɡ
Unicode	dhet

說文解字

更迭也。从辵失聲。一曰达。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

dǎ, da strike

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 丁 represents the sound.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

丁 Sound component

dīng cubes

Change in sound

打 and 丁 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
打 děng
丁 teng

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咑

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		rteŋʔ
		teːŋʔ
Unicode	děng

說文解字

《說文新附》：“打，擊也。从手，丁聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

苦 kǔ bitter

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說文解字

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迭 dié, yì, dá repeatedly

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打 dǎ, da strike

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kǔ bitter

dié, yì, dá repeatedly

dǎ, da strike