刻版 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

kèbǎn

woodblock

kè carve

Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 亥 represents the sound.

Components

hài, jiē 12th terrestrial branch

Change in sound

刻 and 亥 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
刻 *[kʰ]ˤək
亥 *[g]ˤəʔ

刂 Meaning component

dāo knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	khok	[kʰ]ˤək	cut, engrave

說文解字

《說文》：“刻，鏤也。从刀，亥聲。”

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)

bǎn printing block, edition

Phonosemantic compound. 片 represents the meaning and 反 represents the sound.

Components

片 Meaning component

piàn, piān slice

反 Sound component

fǎn reverse

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		praːnʔ
Unicode	bǎn

說文解字

《說文》：“版，判也。从片，反聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

刻 kè carve

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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版 bǎn printing block, edition

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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kè carve

bǎn printing block, edition