蔡襄
Cài Xiāng

Cai Xiang

蔡 cài, sà, cā surname

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Warring States ~300 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

礤

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttshajHs.r̥̥ ˤat-s(name of a state)
Zhengzhangsʰlaːds
Unicodetsɑ̀i

說文解字

艸也。从艸祭聲。

Sources

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

襄 xiāng aid

Phonosemantic compound. 衣 represents the meaning and 𤕦 represents the sound.

Components

衣
衣 Meaning component
yī clothes
𤕦
𤕦 Sound component
níng disorder, unravel
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 𤕦 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Warring States ~300 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (3 of 16 verified)

囊嚷壤镶攘骧瓤穰禳曩讓釀蘘鑲驤孃

Remnant (1)

囊

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

禳

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartsjangs-naŋ remove
sjangs-naŋ Xiāng (personal name)

說文解字

《說文》：“襄，漢令：解衣耕謂之襄。从衣，聲。，古文襄。”

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)