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zēngchóu

thicken

zēng increase

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

Components

土 Meaning component

tǔ earth

曾 Sound component

céng already

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC

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

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 Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsong	s-tˤəŋ	increase

說文解字

《說文》：“增，益也。从土，曾聲。”

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)

chóu dense

Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the meaning and 周 represents the sound.

Components

禾 Meaning component

hé grain stalk

周 Sound component

zhōu cycle

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	drjuw	[d]riw	dense, thick
Zhengzhang		dɯw
Unicode	djhiou

說文解字

多也。从禾周聲。

Sources

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