scold loudly

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
yán speech
Sound component
able to

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartxaqʰˤajshout, scold
Zhengzhangqʰaːl

說文解字

大言而怒也。从言可聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

scold loudly Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components

Meaning component
yán speech

is a component form of .

Sound component
able to

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode