剥夺
bō​duó HSK7

deprive

剥 bō peel Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 录 represents the sound. Simplified form of 剝.

Components

刂
刂 Meaning component
dāo knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

录
录 Sound component
lù copy

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

夺 duó take by force Simplified

Simplified form of 奪. Depicts a hand (寸) snatching a bird (隹). The top component was originally 衣 (clothes), depicting a person holding a bird in their clothes, but later it was reanalyzed as a phonetic component, written as either 兌 or 大.

Components

大
大 Sound component
dà, dài big
奪
隹 Deleted component
zhuī, cuī, wéi bird
寸
寸 Iconic component
cùn, cun (hand), inch

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode

剝 bō peel Traditional

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

Components

刂
刂 Meaning component
dāo knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

彔
彔 Sound component
lù to carve wood

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartpæwk[p]ˤrok
(~ *mə-pˤrok)		flay, peel
Zhengzhangproːɡ
Unicodepak

說文解字

裂也。从刀从录。录，刻割也。录亦聲。

Sources

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

奪 duó take by force Traditional

Depicts a hand (寸) snatching a bird (隹). The top component was originally 衣 (clothes), depicting a person holding a bird in their clothes, but later it was reanalyzed as a phonetic component, written as either 兌 or 大.

Components

大
大 Sound component
dà, dài big
隹
隹 Iconic component
zhuī, cuī, wéi bird
寸
寸 Iconic component
cùn, cun (hand), inch

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdwatCə.lˤot seize

說文解字

《說文》：“，手持隹失之也。从又，从。”

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)