与
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and

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Simplified form of 與. Phonosemantic compound. 舁 represents the meaning and 牙 represents the sound. The traditional component 舁 was removed for simplification.

Components

舁
舁 Deleted component

The traditional component 舁 was removed for simplification.

牙
牙 Sound component

The pronunciation of 與 was similar to 牙 in old Chinese, but they no longer sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 牙 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartyoXm-q(r)aʔ give; for; and

說文解字

《說文》：“与，賜予也。一勺為与。此与與同。”

Sources

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