垂
chuí HSK7

droop

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Original meaning: borderland

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 𠂹 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "borderland", now written as 陲. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

𠂹
𠂹 Sound component
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 𠂹 than it was in ancient scripts.
土
土 Meaning component
Change in meaning
土 hints at the original meaning of 垂, "borderland", which is no longer the most common meaning of 垂 in modern Mandarin.

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdzywe[d]o[j] hang down

說文解字

《玉篇》：“，《說文》垂。”

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)