dǔn​zhù

pillar

dǔn sell or buy wholesale Simplified

A ten-thousand  square-foot  warehouse

Components

Meaning component
wàn ten thousand
Meaning component
foot

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

zhù pillar

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
tree
Sound component
zhǔ master

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
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
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdrjuXm-t<r>oʔpillar
Zhengzhangtoʔ
doʔ
Unicodedjhiǒ

說文解字

楹也。从木主聲。

Sources

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

sell or buy wholesale Traditional

A ten-thousand  square-foot  warehouse

Components

Meaning component
wàn ten thousand
Meaning component
foot

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangtuːnʔ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang