堵
dǔ HSK4

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Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound.

Components

土
土 Meaning component
tǔ earth
者
者 Sound component
zhě one who...
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttuXtˤaʔ a row or set of bells or musical stones
tuXtˤaʔ measure of length of wall

說文解字

《說文》：“堵，垣也。五版為一堵。从土，者聲。，籀文从。”

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)