陂陀
pō​tuó

sloping and uneven

陂 bēi, pō, pí dam

Components

阝
阝 Meaning component
fù hill, place

hill

皮
皮 Sound component
pí skin

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartpjep(r)a[j]river bank; dike
Zhengzhangpral
prals
Unicodebyɛ
pɑ

說文解字

阪也。一曰沱也。从𨸏皮聲。

Sources

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

陀 tuó, duò steep bank

Phonosemantic compound. 它 represents the meaning and 阝 represents the sound.

Components

它
它 Meaning component
tā it
阝
阝 Sound component
fù hill, place

阝 is a component form of 阜.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Qin 221-206 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangl'aːl
Unicodedhɑ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica