shàng, zhǎng the piece of leather used for soles on Chinese shoes

No origin information available for this character yet.

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Unicode

xié shoes

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
leather
Sound component
guī jade pointed at top
Change in sound

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthea[g]ˤre (no pre-Qín exx.)shoe

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Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart