量筒 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

liángtǒng

graduated cylinder

liàng, liang, liáng measure

Phonosemantic compound. 東 (pictograph of a bag) represents the meaning and 昜 represents the sound.

Components

昜 Sound Remnant component

yáng bright

Modern form written like 旦.

Change in form

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

東 Iconic Remnant component

dōng east

Depicts a bag. Modern form written like 里.

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 東 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

Sound (1)

糧

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	ljang	[r]aŋ	measure (v.)
	ljangH	[r]aŋ-s	measure (n.)

說文解字

《說文》：“量，稱輕重也。从重省，曏省聲。，古文量。”

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)

tǒng thick piece of bamboo

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 同 represents the sound. Originally written as 同.

Components

⺮ Meaning component

zhú bamboo

⺮ is a component form of 竹.

同 Sound component

tóng, tong, tòng together

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	duwng	lˤoŋ	tube
Zhengzhang		doːŋ
		doːŋs
Unicode	dhung

說文解字

通簫也。从竹同聲。

Sources

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

量 liàng, liang, liáng measure

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (1)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

筒 tǒng thick piece of bamboo

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

liàng, liang, liáng measure

tǒng thick piece of bamboo