遭拒 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

zāojù

be rejected

zāo come across

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 曹 represents the sound.

Components

辶 Meaning component

chuò walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

曹 Sound component

cáo plaintiff and defendant

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 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

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsaw	tsˤu	encounter (v.)
Zhengzhang		ʔsluː
Unicode	tzɑu

說文解字

遇也。从辵曹聲。一曰邐行。

Sources

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

jù resist

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 巨 represents the sound.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

巨 Sound component

jù large

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		ɡaʔ
Unicode	ghiǔ

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang