发愤忘食 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

fā, fa, fà issue Simplified

Simplified form of both 發 (send out) and 髮 (hair). Visually similar to 犮, the bottom component of 髮.

Component uses

Sound (2 of 4 verified)

废泼酦袯

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

拨

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

fèn resent Simplified

Components

忄 Meaning component

xin, xīn heart

heart

贲 Sound component

bēn, bì, fén forge ahead

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Readings & variants: Unicode

wàng forget

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 亡 represents the sound.

Components

心 Meaning component

xīn, xin heart

亡 Sound component

wáng death

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC

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

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	mjang	maŋ	forget
	mjangH	maŋ-s	forget

說文解字

《說文》：“忘，不識也。从心，从亡，亡亦聲。”

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)

shí, shi eat

Depicts a mouth (亼) eating from a food vessel (皀).

Components

亼 Iconic component

jí (upside-down mouth), to assemble

Depicts an upside-down mouth.

皀 Iconic component

jí, bī, xiāng one grain

Depicts a food vessel.

Change in form

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

Character Evolution

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Meaning (4 of 11 verified)

餐饕飧飨饔餍餮養饜飬饗

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	zyik	mə-lək	eat
	ziH	s-m-lək-s	feed (v.)

說文解字

《說文》：“食，一米也。从皀，亼聲。或說亼皀也。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫季旭昇《說文新證》p.435-436
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

fā, fa, fà send out Traditional

Depicts a hand pulling back an arrow (殳) in a bow (弓). 癶 represents the sound.

Components

癶 Sound component

bō legs

Change in sound

發 and 癶 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
發 *Cə.pat
癶 paːd

弓 Iconic component

gōng bow

Depicts a bow.

殳 Iconic component

shū weapon or tool

Depicts a hand pulling an arrow.

Character Evolution

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Component uses

Sound (2 of 3 verified)

醱廢潑

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

撥

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	pjot	Cə.pat	fly forth, send forth

說文解字

《說文》：“發，發也。从弓，癹聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.880-881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)

fèn resent Traditional

Components

忄 Meaning component

xin, xīn heart

heart

賁 Sound component

forge ahead

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	bjunX	[b]urʔ	unhappy
Zhengzhang		bɯnʔ
Unicode	bhiə̌n

說文解字

懣也。从心賁聲。

Sources

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

发 fā, fa, fà issue Simplified

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Sound (2 of 4 verified)

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

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愤 fèn resent Simplified

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忘 wàng forget

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說文解字

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食 shí, shi eat

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Character Evolution

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Meaning (4 of 11 verified)

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說文解字

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發 fā, fa, fà send out Traditional

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Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (2 of 3 verified)

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

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說文解字

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憤 fèn resent Traditional

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說文解字

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fā, fa, fà issue Simplified

fèn resent Simplified

wàng forget

shí, shi eat

fā, fa, fà send out Traditional

fèn resent Traditional