铁爪鹀 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

tiězhǎowú

Lapland longspur

tiě iron Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 钅 represents the meaning and 失 represents the sound. Simplified form of 鐵.

Components

钅 Meaning component

jīn metal

钅 is a component form of 金.

失 Sound component

shī lose

Change in sound

铁 and 失 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
铁 *l̥ˤik
失 *l̥i[t]

Historical Pronunciations

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode

zhǎo, zhuǎ hand, claw

Pictograph of a hand or claw pointing downwards.

Character Evolution

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Iconic (2)

Sound (1 of 2 verified)

Meaning (2)

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsraewX	[ts]ˤ<r>uʔ	claw

說文解字

《說文》：“爪，也。覆手曰爪，象形。”

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)

wú Simplified

No origin information available for this character yet.

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

tiě iron Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 𢧤 represents the sound.

Components

釒 Meaning component

jīn metal

𢧤 Sound component

zhì big

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	thet	l̥ˤik	iron

說文解字

《說文》：“鐵，黑金也。从金，聲。，鐵或省。銕，古文鐵从夷。”

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)

鵐 Traditional

Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	ma

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang