侮
wǔ HSK7

insult

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Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 每 represents the sound.

Components

亻
亻 Meaning component
rén person
每
每 Sound component
měi every
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartmjuXm(r)oʔ insult (v.)

說文解字

《說文》：“侮，傷也。从人，每聲。，古文从母。”

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)