内埔乡 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

nèi inside Simplified

Depicts a person (人) inside a building (冂).

Components

人 Iconic component

rén, ren person

冂 Iconic component

jiōng, jiǒng large room

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (5 of 13 verified)

纳呐钠讷芮衲蚋肭納枘鈉㕯訥

說文解字

《說文》：“內，入也。从口，自外而入也。”

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

bù, pǔ plain

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 甫 represents the sound.

Components

土 Meaning component

tǔ earth

甫 Sound component

fu begin

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

xiāng hometown Simplified

Simplified form of 鄉. Pictograph of two people facing each other, kneeling down to share a meal. Based on the original meaning "feast" or "offer food", now written as 饗. The meaning later shifted to "hometown". The right two components were removed for simplification.

Components

卩 Iconic component

jié person kneeling

Depicts a kneeling person facing right.

Change in form

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

飠 Deleted component

eat

卩 Deleted component

jié person kneeling

Depicts a kneeling person facing left.

Component uses

Sound (1 of 2 verified)

飨芗

Simplified (0 of 1 verified)

芗

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

nèi inside Traditional

Depicts an entrance (入) to go inside a building (冂).

Components

入 Iconic component

rù enter

冂 Iconic component

jiōng, jiǒng large room

Character Evolution

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Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

吶

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	nop	nˤ[u]p	bring or send in
	nwojH	nˤ[u]p-s	inside

說文解字

《說文》：“內，入也。从口，自外而入也。”

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)

xiāng hometown Traditional

Original meaning: feast, offer food

Pictograph of two people facing each other, kneeling down to share a meal. Based on the original meaning "feast" or "offer food", now written as 饗. The meaning later shifted to "hometown".