贡丸
gòng​wán

pork ball

贡 gòng offer tribute Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 贝 represents the meaning and 工 represents the sound. Simplified form of 貢.

Components

贝
贝 Meaning component
bèi sea shell
工
工 Sound component
gōng work

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

唝

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

丸 wán small round object

Derived from 夗. Pictograph of a dying animal lying down. The meaning later shifted to "small round object", "pellet" and "pill".

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

芄纨紈

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthwan[ɢ]ʷˤar pellet; ball
hwanɦʷˤar (< *[ɢ]ʷˤar)烏丸 Wūhuán: Avars (W. Hàn)

說文解字

《說文》：“丸，圜，傾側而轉者。从反仄。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.726劉釗《古文字構形學》p.128
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

貢 gòng offer tribute Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 貝 represents the meaning and 工 represents the sound.

Components

貝
貝 Meaning component
bèi sea shell
工
工 Sound component
gōng work

Character Evolution

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

Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

槓嗊

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkuwngH[k]ˤom-stribute
Zhengzhangkoːŋs
Unicodegùng

說文解字

獻功也。从貝工聲。

Sources

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