贵族社会 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

guì expensive Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 贝 represents the meaning and 㬰 represents the sound. Simplified form of 貴.

Components

㬰 Sound component

yú, kuì basket

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 㬰 than it was in ancient scripts.

贝 Meaning component

bèi sea shell

Depicts a shell, used as currency in ancient China.

Component uses

Sound (3 of 9 verified)

遗溃馈匮篑聩愦缋蒉

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

馈

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.525-526
Readings & variants: Unicode

zú clan, tribe, race

Depicts a flag (㫃) representing a clan and an arrow (矢) representing their military power.

Components

㫃 Iconic component

yǎn flags flying

矢 Iconic component

shǐ arrow

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

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

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Sound (0 of 3 verified)

簇镞蔟

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	dzuwk	[dz]ˤok	clan

說文解字

《說文》：“族，矢鋒也，束之族族也。从，从矢。”

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)

shè society

Original meaning: god of soil

Originally depicted a god (礻) of the soil (土). The meaning later shifted to "shrine", "congregation", and "society".

Components

礻 Meaning component

shì show

礻 is a component form of 示.

土 Sound Meaning component

tǔ earth

Change in sound

社 and 土 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
社 *m-tʰAʔ
土 *tʰˤaʔ

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	dzyaeX	m-tʰAʔ	sacrifice to the spirit of the soil

說文解字

《說文》：“社，地主也。从示、土。《春秋傳》曰：‘共工之子句龍為社神。’《周禮》：‘二十五家為社，各樹其土所宜之木。’，古文社。”

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)

huì, kuài to gather Simplified

Simplified form of 會. Phonosemantic compound. 合 represents the meaning and 𡆧 represents the sound.

Components

合 Meaning Simplified component

hé to join

𡆧 Sound Simplified component

guó ironware

Change in sound

会 and 𡆧 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

Component uses

Sound (1 of 12 verified)

绘刽荟桧烩脍狯哙浍鲙郐𬭇

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

侩

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.442
Readings & variants: Unicode

guì expensive Traditional

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

Components

㬰 Sound component

yú, kuì basket

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 㬰 than it was in ancient scripts.

貝 Meaning component

bèi sea shell

Depicts a shell, used as currency in ancient China.

Character Evolution

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Sound (3 of 7 verified)

遺饋聵匱潰蕢簣

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

饋

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	kjw+jH	kuj-s	precious; expensive

說文解字

《說文》：“，物不賤也。从貝，臾聲。臾，古文蕢。”

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.525-526
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

huì, kuài to gather Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 合 represents the meaning and 𡆧 represents the sound.

Components

合 Meaning component

hé to join

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 合 than it was in ancient scripts.

𡆧 Sound component

guó ironware

Change in sound

會 and 𡆧 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (2 of 11 verified)

劊癐噲膾廥檜燴繪𨭗薈鱠

Meaning (0 of 2 verified)

儈廥

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	hwajH	m-kˤop-s	meeting; have a meeting
	hwajH	ɦʷˤajs (< *m-kˤop-s)	阿會亘 ēhuìxuān: Skt. ābhāsvara ‘shining’ (E. Hàn)
	kwajH	kˤop-s	calculate; calculation

說文解字

《說文》：“會，合也。从亼，从曾省。曾，益也。令，古文會如此。”

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.442
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

贵 guì expensive Simplified

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Sound (3 of 9 verified)

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

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族 zú clan, tribe, race

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Sound (0 of 3 verified)

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社 shè society

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会 huì, kuài to gather Simplified

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Sound (1 of 12 verified)

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

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貴 guì expensive Traditional

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Character Evolution

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Sound (3 of 7 verified)

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

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說文解字

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會 huì, kuài to gather Traditional

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Character Evolution

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Sound (2 of 11 verified)

Meaning (0 of 2 verified)

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說文解字

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guì expensive Simplified

zú clan, tribe, race

shè society

huì, kuài to gather Simplified

guì expensive Traditional

huì, kuài to gather Traditional