Simplified
Original meaning: to meet
Simplified form of 這, which originally meant "to meet" and had a pronunciation corresponding to modern Mandarin yàn. 這 later acquired an unrelated pronunciation and meaning through confusion with another character.
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Simplified
Original meaning: chopsticks
Simplified form of 著. 艹 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "chopsticks", now written as 箸. The modern meanings are phonetic loans.
Components
Alludes to bamboo chopsticks. 艹 and ⺮ (bamboo) were often used interchangeably with each other because of their visual and semantic similarity.
Change in form
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | |
|---|---|
| Unicode | djiɑk |
| djiɑk |
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- Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters
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Traditional
Original meaning: to meet
Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 言 represents the sound. The character originally meant "to meet" and had a pronunciation corresponding to modern Mandarin yàn. 這 later acquired an unrelated pronunciation and meaning through confusion with 遮.
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Historical Pronunciations
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | ŋrans |
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Traditional
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Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | maːlʔ |
說文解字
《說文》：“麼，細也，从幺麻聲。”
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- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫
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- Zhengzhang Shangfang
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- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)
Traditional
Original meaning: chopsticks
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "chopsticks", now written as 箸. The modern meanings are phonetic loans.
Components
Alludes to bamboo chopsticks. 艹 and ⺮ (bamboo) were often used interchangeably with each other because of their visual and semantic similarity.
Character Evolution
Component uses
Sound (0 of 1 verified)
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | trjoH | t<r>ak-s | place (n.); visible |
| drjak | m-t<r>ak | put on clothes; be attached | |
| trjak | t<r>ak | to place |
Sources
- Character origin
- Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-Sagart
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica