鼾声如雷 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

hān snore loudly

Phonosemantic compound. 鼻 represents the meaning and 干 represents the sound.

Components

鼻 Meaning component

bí nose

干 Sound component

gàn, gān interfere

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	qʰaːn
	ɢaːns

說文解字

臥息也。从鼻干聲。讀若汗。

Sources

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

shēng, sheng sound Simplified

Remnant of the character 殸 (stone chimes). Depicts a musical stone chime hung up on a rope. Simplified form of 聲.

Components

糸 Iconic component

mì, sī silk

Depicts a rope. Modern form looks like unrelated 士.

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 糸 than it was in ancient scripts.

石 Iconic component

shí stone

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 石 than it was in ancient scripts.

Component uses

Iconic (2)

磬殸

Sources

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

rú be like

Original meaning: obey

Depicts a woman (女) obeying spoken (口) orders. Based on the original meaning "obey". The meaning later shifted to "be similar" and "like". 女 also serves as a sound component.

Components

女 Sound Iconic component

nǚ, nü woman

口 Iconic component

kǒu, kou mouth

Character Evolution

Clerical form — Clerical Spring and Autumn 771-476 BC

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Sound (0 of 5 verified)

恕絮茹洳铷

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	nyo	na	go to
	nyo	na	as, like, if

說文解字

《說文》：“如，从隨也。从女，从口。”

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)

léi thunder

Depicts rain (雨) and lightning (申) together.

Components

雨 Iconic component

yǔ rain

申 Iconic component

shēn to extend

Depicts a lightning bolt. Modern form looks like unrelated 田.

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 申 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

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Component uses

Sound (1 of 4 verified)

蕾擂镭檑

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	lwoj	C.rˤuj	thunder

說文解字

《說文》：“靁，陰陽薄動，靁雨生物者也，从雨，畾象回轉形。，古文靁。，古文靁。，籀文，靁間有回，回，靁聲也。”

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)

shēng, sheng sound Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 耳 represents the meaning and 殸 represents the sound.

Components

耳 Meaning component

ěr ear

殸 Sound component

qìng, kēng, shēng stone chimes

Change in sound

聲 and 殸 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
聲 syeng
殸 khengH

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	syeng	[l̥]eŋ	sound (n.)

說文解字

《說文》：“聲，音也。从耳，殸聲。殸，籀文磬。”

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)

鼾 hān snore loudly

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声 shēng, sheng sound Simplified

Components

Component uses

Iconic (2)

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如 rú be like

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Sound (0 of 5 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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雷 léi thunder

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Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (1 of 4 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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聲 shēng, sheng sound Traditional

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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hān snore loudly

shēng, sheng sound Simplified

rú be like

léi thunder

shēng, sheng sound Traditional