徹
chè

penetrate, thorough

Phonosemantic compound. 彳 represents the meaning and 𢾿 represents the sound.

Components

彳
彳 Meaning component
chì, fú walk
𢾿
𢾿 Sound component
chè, wén remove, take away
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 𢾿 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
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 Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1 of 2 verified)

辙轍

Simplified (0 of 1 verified)

辙

Remnant (1)

轍

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdrjetm-[tʰ]ret penetrate
drjetm-tʰret divide land acc. to a certain share system
trhjettʰret divide land acc. to a certain share system
trhjettʰret penetrate

說文解字

《說文》：“徹，通也。从彳，从攴，从育。，古文徹。”

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)

彻 chè penetrate Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 彳 represents the meaning and 切 represents the sound. Simplified form of 徹.

Components

彳
彳 Meaning component
chì, fú walk

彳 is a component form of 行.

切
切 SoundMeaning component
qiè, qiē cut

Sources

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