含山县 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

hán contain, hold in mouth

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 今 represents the sound.

Components

jīn now

Change in sound

含 and 今 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
含 *Cə-m-[k]ˤ[ə]m-s
今 *[k]r[ə]m

口 Meaning component

kǒu, kou mouth

Character Evolution

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

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (0 of 5 verified)

颔晗焓頷唅

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

唅

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	hom	Cə-m-kˤ[ə]m	hold in the mouth
	homH	Cə-m-[k]ˤ[ə]m-s	to put in the mouth

說文解字

《說文》：“含，嗛也。从口，今聲。”

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)

shān mountain

Pictograph of a mountain.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	srean	s-ŋrar	mountain, hill

說文解字

《說文》：“山，宣也。宣气，生萬物，有石而高。象形。”

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)

xiàn county Simplified

Original meaning: suspend, hang

Simplified form of 縣. Pictograph of a severed head (首) hanging on a rope (系) from a tree (木). Based on the original meaning "hang" or "suspend". The current meaning is a phonetic loan. The traditional component 系 was removed for simplification.

Components

首 Iconic component

shǒu head

Depicts a severed head.

Change in form

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

木 Iconic component

mù tree

Change in form

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

系 Deleted component

xì, xi, jì system

Depicts a rope. The traditional component 系 was removed for simplification.

Component uses

Sound (1)

悬

Iconic (1)

悬

Sources

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

xiàn county Traditional

Original meaning: suspend, hang

Pictograph of a severed head (首) hanging on a rope (系) from a tree (木). Based on the original meaning "hang" or "suspend", now written as 懸. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.