㳄
xián

spit, saliva

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Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 欠 represents the sound.

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component

氵 is a component form of 水.

欠
欠 Sound component

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartzjens-N-qa[r] saliva (from envy?)
zjens-N-qa[r] spittle

說文解字

《說文》：“，慕欲口液也。从欠，从水。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)