edit character approved 叶 — "verify"
- Gloss
- to be in harmony → be in harmony, leaf
- Hint
- Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 十 represents the sound. In simplified Chinese 叶 is also used to mean "leaf; page", while in traditional Chinese this meaning is written with a separate character 葉. → Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 十 represents the sound. Originally a variant of 協 (cooperate). Later used as the simplified form of the phonetically similar character 葉 (leaf).
- Verified
- No → Yes
- Components
- 口 Meaning
- hint: (empty) → Based on the meaning "cooperate", "be in harmony". Unrelated to "leaf".
- 十 Sound
- hint: The pronunciation of 叶 was similar to 十 in old Chinese, but they no longer sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. → (empty)
- isOldPronunciation: (empty) → true
- 口 Meaning
- Sources
Changed: gloss, hint, verified, components, sources
edit character approved 叶 — "in harmony old phone"
- Historical pronunciations
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- pinyin: yè → xié
- middleChinese: yep → hep
- oldChinese: *l[a]p → *[ɢ]ˤep
- gloss: leaf → in harmony
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Changed: pronunciations
edit character approved 叶 — "add old phone"