虾仁 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

xiā shrimp Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 下 represents the sound. Simplified form of 蝦.

Components

虫 Meaning component

chóng bug, insect

下 Sound component

xià, xia under

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

rén humaneness

Depicts a kind relationship between two (二) people (亻). 亻 also represents the sound.

Components

亻 Sound Meaning component

rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

二 Meaning component

èr two

Used here to represent the concept of two people.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	nyin	niŋ	kind

說文解字

《說文》：“仁，親也。从人，从二。忎，古文仁从千、心。，古文仁或从尸。”

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)

xiā shrimp Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 叚 represents the sound.

Components

虫 Meaning component

chóng bug, insect

叚 Sound component

jiǎ, xiá false

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	hæ	[ɡ]ˤra	hae-mae frog; shrimp
Zhengzhang		qʰraː
		ɡraː
Unicode	ha

說文解字

蝦蟆也。从虫叚聲。

Sources

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

虾 xiā shrimp Simplified

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仁 rén humaneness

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Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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蝦 xiā shrimp Traditional

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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xiā shrimp Simplified

rén humaneness

xiā shrimp Traditional