雀跃
què​yuè

jubilant

雀 què sparrow

Pictograph of a sparrow.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsjak[ts]ewk sparrow

說文解字

《說文》：“雀，依人小鳥也。从小、隹。讀與爵同。”

Sources

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

跃 yuè skip Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 夭 represents the sound. Simplified form of 躍.

Components

足
足 Meaning component
zú foot
夭
夭 Sound component
yāo, wò, wāi die young

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

躍 yuè skip Traditional

Components

足
足 Meaning component
zú foot

foot

翟
翟 Sound component
dí, zhái a kind of pheasant

Character Evolution

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-Sagartyaklewkleap, jump
Zhengzhanglewɢ
Unicodeiɑk

說文解字

迅也。从足翟聲。

Sources

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