尌
shù

standing (something) up

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approved by Peter Olson · Apr 30, 2021, 07:53 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Apr 30, 2021, 07:53 PM

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Depicts a hand (寸) cultivating a tree (木). The sound component 豆 was added later.

Components

屮
屮 Iconic component

Depicts a plant sprouting up.

豆
豆 Sound component
Change in sound
寸
寸 Iconic component

Depicts a hand cultivating a plant.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdzyuHm-toʔ-s raise, stand up v.t.

說文解字

《說文》：“尌，立也。从壴，从寸，持之也。讀若駐。”

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)