詳
xiáng

detailed

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 羊 represents the sound.

Components

言
言 Meaning component
yán speech
羊
羊 Sound component
yáng sheep

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartzjangs.[ɢ]aŋ scrutinize fully

說文解字

《說文》：“詳，審議也。从言，羊聲。”

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)

详 xiáng detailed Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 讠 represents the meaning and 羊 represents the sound. Simplified form of 詳.

Components

讠
讠 Meaning component
yán speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

羊
羊 Sound component
yáng sheep

Sources

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