隋书 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

suí, duò, tuǒ Sui dynasty

Original meaning: shred sacrificial meat

Phonosemantic compound. 隓 represents the sound and ⺼ represents the meaning.

Components

隓 Sound Remnant component

huī, duò destroy

⺼ Meaning component

ròu meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

Change in meaning

⺼ hints at the original meaning of 隋, "shred sacrificial meat", which is no longer the most common meaning of 隋 in modern Mandarin.

Character Evolution

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Component uses

Sound (2 of 5 verified)

隳隨墮橢陏

Remnant (1)

陏

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	xjwieH	l̥oj-s (W. dialect: *l̥- > x-)	shred sacrificial meat
	dwaX	lˤojʔ	to fall
	dwaX	lˤojʔ	to fall
	zjwe	sə.loj	(place name)
	sjweH	s-loj-s	shred sacrificial meat
	thwaX	l̥ˤojʔ	shred sacrificial meat

說文解字

《說文》：“隋，裂肉也。从肉，从隓省。”

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)

shū book Simplified

Simplified form of 書. Phonosemantic compound. 聿 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound. The simplified character 书 is derived from the cursive form of 書.