霞飞 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

Xiáfēi

Joffre

xiá rosy clouds

Phonosemantic compound. 雨 represents the meaning and 叚 represents the sound.

Components

雨 Meaning component

yǔ rain

叚 Sound component

jiǎ, xiá false

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		ɡraː
Unicode	ha

說文解字

赤雲气也。从雨叚聲。

Sources

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

fēi fly Simplified

Simplified form of 飛. Pictograph of a flying bird.

Sources

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

fēi fly Traditional

Pictograph of a flying bird.

Character Evolution

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

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

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	pj+j	Cə.pə[r] (dialect: -r > -j)	fly (v.)

說文解字

《說文》：“飛，鳥翥也。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)