赤狐 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

chìhú

red fox

chì red

Depicts the color of a large (大) fire (火).

Components

大 Meaning component

dà, dài big

Change in form

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

火 Meaning component

huǒ fire

Change in form

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

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

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

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Component uses

Meaning (1 of 3 verified)

赫赭赧

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

郝赦哧

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsyhek	[t-qʰ](r)Ak	red

說文解字

《說文》：“赤，南方色也。从大、从火。烾，古文从炎、土。”

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)

hú species of fox

Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 瓜 represents the sound.

Components

犭 Meaning component

quǎn dog

犭 is a component form of 犬.

瓜 Sound component

guā melon

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	hu	[ɡ]ʷˤa	fox
Zhengzhang		ɡʷaː
Unicode	ho

說文解字

䄏獸也。鬼所乘之。有三徳：其色中和，小前大後，死則丘首。从犬瓜聲。

Sources

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

赤 chì red

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Meaning (1 of 3 verified)

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

狐 hú species of fox

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

chì red

hú species of fox