edit character approved 盍 — "dish"
- Hint
- Pictograph of a lid on top of a vessel. The semantic component 皿 was added later to avoid confusion with the unrelated character 去 (go away). Based on the original meaning "lid", now written as 蓋. The current meaning is a phonetic loan. → Pictograph of a lid on top of a vessel. The semantic component 皿 (dish) was added later to avoid confusion with the unrelated character 去 (go away). Based on the original meaning "lid", now written as 蓋. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Changed: hint
edit character approved 盍 — "Changed origin"
- Hint
- Pictograph of a lid (去) on top of a container (皿). Based on the original meaning "lid", now written as 蓋. The current meaning is a phonetic loan. → Pictograph of a lid on top of a vessel. The semantic component 皿 was added later to avoid confusion with the unrelated character 去 (go away). Based on the original meaning "lid", now written as 蓋. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
- Components
- 皿 Meaning
- type: iconic → meaning
- + ◎ Iconic Depicts a lid over a vessel. Not related to 去 (go away).
- - 去 Iconic
- 皿 Meaning
- Sources
- 漢語多功能字庫
- + 季旭昇《說文新證》p.423
Changed: hint, components, sources
edit character approved 盍 — "verify"