颐和园
Yí​hé​yuán

Summer Palace

颐 yí cheeks Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 页 represents the meaning and 𦣞 represents the sound. Simplified form of 頤.

Components

页
页 Meaning component
yè page
𦣞
𦣞 Sound component
yí chin

Sources

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和 hé, huo, he harmony

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 禾 represents the sound.

Components

口
口 Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth
禾
禾 Sound component
hé grain stalk

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthwa[ɢ]ˤoj harmonious
hwaH[ɢ]ˤoj-s tune (instruments); respond in singing

說文解字

《說文》：“咊，相譍也。从口，禾聲。”

Sources

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Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

园 yuán garden Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 囗 represents the meaning and 元 represents the sound. Simplified form of 園.

Components

囗
囗 Meaning component
wéi, guó surround
元
元 Sound component
yuán first

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangŋoːn

Sources

Character origin
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Zhengzhang Shangfang

頤 cheeks Traditional

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

Components

頁
頁 Meaning component
yè (head), page
𦣞
𦣞 Sound component
yí chin

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
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 Jin 266-420 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartyi[ɢ](r)ə chin

說文解字

《說文》：“，也。象形。頤，篆文。，籀文从首。”

Sources

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Academia Sinica
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Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

園 yuán garden Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 囗 represents the meaning and 袁 represents the sound.

Components

囗
囗 Meaning component
wéi, guó surround
袁
袁 Sound component
yuán robe

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
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-SagarthjwonC.ɢʷa[n] garden

說文解字

《說文》：“園，所以樹果也。从囗，袁聲。”

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)