飞抓

飞 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

抓 zhuā scratch

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 瓜 represents the sound.

Components

扌
扌 Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

爪
爪 SoundMeaning component
zhǎo, zhuǎ hand, claw

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsraew[ts](ˤ)ru grasp
tsraewXtsˤ<r>uʔ grasp

Sources

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

飛 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

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartpj+jCə.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)