谪仙
zhé​xiān

banished official

谪 zhé charge Simplified

Components

讠
讠 Meaning component
yán speech

speech

啇
啇 Sound component
dì, shì, zhāi stalk, stem, root

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

仙 xian, xiān Taoist super-being

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 山 represents the sound. Simplified form of 僊.

Components

亻
亻 Meaning component
rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

山
山 Sound component
shān mountain

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartsjen[s]a[r]immortal (n.)
Zhengzhangsen
Unicodesiɛn
siɛn

Sources

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

謫 charge Traditional

Components

言
言 Meaning component
yán speech

speech

啇
啇 Sound component
dì, shì, zhāi stalk, stem, root

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdreakm-tˤrekblame, punish
treakC.tˤrekblame (v.)
Zhengzhangrteːɡ
Unicodedjɛk

說文解字

罰也。从言啻聲。

Sources

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