菌托 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

jūntuō

volva

jūn mushroom

Components

艹 Meaning component

cao, cǎo grass

plant

囷 Sound component

qūn round-shaped storage bin for grain

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	gwinX	[ɡ]runʔ	mushroom
Zhengzhang		ɡonʔ
		ɡrunʔ

說文解字

地蕈也。从艸囷聲。

Sources

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

tuō to hold up, support

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

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

乇 Sound component

tuō, zhé to depend on

Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	l̥ʰaːɡ

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang