颅底
lú​dǐ

skull base

颅 lú skull Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 页 represents the meaning and 卢 represents the sound. Simplified form of 顱.

Components

页
页 Meaning component
yè page
卢
卢 Sound component
lú, lǘ, léi rice vessel

Sources

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底 dǐ bottom

Phonosemantic compound. 广 represents the meaning and 氐 represents the sound.

Components

广
广 Meaning component
guǎng roof
氐
氐 SoundMeaning component
dī, dǐ, zhī bottom

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttejXtˤijʔ bottom; stop, obstruct

說文解字

《說文》：“底，山居也。一曰下也。从广，氐聲。”

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)

顱 skull Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 盧 represents the sound.

Components

頁
頁 Meaning component
yè (head), page
盧
盧 Sound component
rice vessel

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangb·raː

說文解字

𩑒顱，首骨也。从頁盧聲。

Sources

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