闷声不响 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

mèn, mēn gloomy Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 门 represents the sound. Simplified form of 悶.

Components

心 Meaning component

xīn, xin heart

门 Sound component

mén, men door

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

焖

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Readings & variants: Unicode

shēng, sheng sound Simplified

Remnant of the character 殸 (stone chimes). Depicts a musical stone chime hung up on a rope. Simplified form of 聲.

Components

糸 Iconic component

mì, sī silk

Depicts a rope. Modern form looks like unrelated 士.

Change in form

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

石 Iconic component

shí stone

Change in form

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

Component uses

Iconic (2)

磬殸

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

bù, bu no

Original meaning: sepals

Pictograph of sepals of a flower. The modern meaning "no" is a phonetic loan.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	pjuw	pə	not
	pjuw	pə	不律 writing brush (pron. in Wú 吳 ap. Shuōwén; E. Hàn)

說文解字

《說文》：“不，鳥飛上翔不下來也。从一，一猶天也。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)

xiǎng make sound Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 向 represents the sound. Simplified form of 響.

Components

口 Meaning component

kǒu, kou mouth

向 Sound component

xiàng toward

Sources

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

mèn, mēn gloomy Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 門 represents the sound.

Components

心 Meaning component

xīn, xin heart

門 Sound component

mén, men door

Character Evolution

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Sound (0 of 1 verified)

燜

Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	mɯːns

說文解字

懣也。从心門聲。

Sources

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

shēng, sheng sound Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 耳 represents the meaning and 殸 represents the sound.

Components

耳 Meaning component

ěr ear

殸 Sound component

qìng, kēng, shēng stone chimes

Change in sound

聲 and 殸 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
聲 syeng
殸 khengH

Character Evolution

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	syeng	[l̥]eŋ	sound (n.)

說文解字

《說文》：“聲，音也。从耳，殸聲。殸，籀文磬。”

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)

xiǎng make sound Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 音 represents the meaning and 鄉 represents the sound.

Components

鄉 Sound component

xiāng hometown

音 Meaning component

yīn sound

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	xjangX	qʰaŋʔ	echo

說文解字

聲也。从音鄉聲。

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)

闷 mèn, mēn gloomy Simplified

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Sound (0 of 1 verified)

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声 shēng, sheng sound Simplified

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Component uses

Iconic (2)

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不 bù, bu no

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (3 of 5 verified)

Simplified (4)

Meaning (1 of 4 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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响 xiǎng make sound Simplified

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悶 mèn, mēn gloomy Traditional

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Character Evolution

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Sound (0 of 1 verified)

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說文解字

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聲 shēng, sheng sound Traditional

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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響 xiǎng make sound Traditional

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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mèn, mēn gloomy Simplified

shēng, sheng sound Simplified

bù, bu no

xiǎng make sound Simplified

mèn, mēn gloomy Traditional

shēng, sheng sound Traditional

xiǎng make sound Traditional