措
cuò HSK4

to place, arrange

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

Components

扌
扌 Meaning component

扌 is a component form of 手.

昔
昔 Sound component
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttshuH[tsʰ]ˤak-s place (v.)

說文解字

《說文》：“措，置也。从手，昔聲。”

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)