闽菜
Mǐn​cài

Fujian cuisine

闽 mǐn Fujian province Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 门 represents the sound. Simplified form of 閩.

Components

虫
虫 Meaning component
chóng bug, insect
门
门 Sound component
mén, men door

Sources

Readings & variants
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菜 cài vegetables

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 采 represents the sound.

Components

艹
艹 Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

采
采 Sound component
cǎi gather, pick

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttshojHs.r̥ˤəʔ-s vegetables

說文解字

艸之可食者。从艸采聲。

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)

閩 Fujian province Traditional

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

Components

虫
虫 Meaning component
chóng bug, insect
門
門 Sound component
mén, men door

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartminmrə[n]southern tribes
Zhengzhangmrɯn
mɯn
Unicodemyin

說文解字

東南越，蛇穜。从虫門聲。

Sources

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