荣县 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

róng flourish, glory Simplified

Simplified form of 榮. Phonosemantic compound. 𤇾 represents the sound and 木 represents the meaning.

Components

yìng glimmer

Change in sound

荣 and 𤇾 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
荣 hjwaeng
𤇾 hweng

木 Meaning component

mù tree

Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

嵘蝾

Historical Pronunciations

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode

xiàn county Simplified

Original meaning: suspend, hang

Simplified form of 縣. Pictograph of a severed head (首) hanging on a rope (系) from a tree (木). Based on the original meaning "hang" or "suspend". The current meaning is a phonetic loan. The traditional component 系 was removed for simplification.

Components

首 Iconic component

shǒu head

Depicts a severed head.

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 首 than it was in ancient scripts.

木 Iconic component

mù tree

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 木 than it was in ancient scripts.

系 Deleted component

xì, xi, jì system

Depicts a rope. The traditional component 系 was removed for simplification.

Component uses

Sound (1)

悬

Iconic (1)

悬

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode

róng flourish, glory Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 𤇾 represents the sound and 木 represents the meaning.

Components

𤇾 Sound component

yìng glimmer

𤇾 is a component form of 熒.

Change in sound

榮 and 𤇾 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
榮 hjwaeng
𤇾 hweng

木 Meaning component

mù tree

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Regular Modern

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