草秆 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

cǎo grass

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

Components

艹 Sound Meaning component

cao, cǎo grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

早 Sound component

zǎo early

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tshawX	[tsʰ]ˤuʔ	grass, plants
	tshawX	[tsʰ]ˤuʔ	rough, coarse

說文解字

草斗，櫟實也。一曰象斗子。从艸早聲。

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)

gǎn straw Simplified

Dried 干 grain stalks 禾; 干 also provides the pronunciation

Components

禾 Meaning component

hé grain stalk

干 Sound Meaning component

gàn, gān interfere

Character Evolution

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	kanX	kˤa[r]ʔ	straw of grain
Zhengzhang		kaːnʔ

Sources

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

gǎn straw Traditional

Dried 旱 grain stalks 禾; 旱 also provides the pronunciation

Components

禾 Meaning component

hé grain stalk

旱 Sound Meaning component

hàn drought

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	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	kaːnʔ

說文解字

禾莖也。从禾旱聲。《春秋傳》曰：“或投一秉稈。”

Sources

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

草 cǎo grass

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秆 gǎn straw Simplified

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稈 gǎn straw Traditional

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cǎo grass

gǎn straw Simplified

gǎn straw Traditional