奥姆真理教 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

aò, ào, yù mysterious Simplified

Original meaning: to store

Simplified form of 奧. Depicts two hands (廾) hiding rice (米) in a corner or a container. Based on the original meaning "to store". The meaning later shifted to "obscure", "profound", and "mysterious".

Components

◎ Iconic component

characterless component

Depicts a hidden corner or a container.

米 Iconic component

mǐ rice

Depicts grains of rice.

廾 Iconic component

gǒng two hands

Depicts two hands.

Change in form

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

Component uses

Sound (1 of 4 verified)

噢懊燠襖

說文解字

宛也。室之西南隅。从宀𢍏聲。

Sources

Character origin: 鄔可晶《釋「奧」》Wiktionary (JA)
Readings & variants: Unicode
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

mǔ woman looking after children

Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 母 represents the sound.

Components

女 Meaning component

nǚ, nü woman

母 Sound component

mǔ mother

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	muwX	məʔ	female teacher in harem

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart

zhēn real

Original meaning: precious

Based on the original meaning "precious", now written as 珍. The meaning later shifted to "genuine" and "true".

Components

𠂈 Sound component

diān, tiǎn to fall forwards

Based on an ancient variant of 殄.

Change in sound

真 and 𠂈 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
真 *ti[n]
𠂈 *[d]ˤə[n]ʔ

Change in form

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

貝 Meaning component

bèi sea shell

In ancient China, shells were considered precious and were used as currency.

丁 Sound component

dīng cubes

Change in sound

真 and 丁 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
真 *ti[n]
丁 *tˤeŋ

Change in form

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

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

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

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Component uses

Sound (7 of 15 verified)

镇慎填颠滇嗔缜稹瞋鎮禛顛瑱鬒縝

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsyin	ti[n]	true, real

說文解字

《說文》：“真，僊人變形而登天也。从，从目，从。八，所乘載也。，古文真。”

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.643-644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)

lǐ, li reason

Original meaning: cut jade

Phonosemantic compound. 𤣩 represents the meaning and 里 represents the sound.

Components

𤣩 Meaning component

yù jade

𤣩 is a component form of 玉.

Change in meaning

𤣩 hints at the original meaning of 理, "cut jade", which is no longer the most common meaning of 理 in modern Mandarin.

里 Sound component

lǐ, li village

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	liX	m(ə).rəʔ	cut jade; regulate
	liX	m(ə).rəʔ	reason; principle

說文解字

《說文》：“理，治玉也。从玉，里聲。”

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)

jiào, jiāo teach

Depicts teaching a child (子) mathematics or divination (爻) using a rod (攵).

Components

爻 Sound Iconic component

yáo, xiào diagrams for divination

子 Iconic component

zi, zǐ child

攵 Iconic component

pū tap

攵 is a component form of 攴.

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	kaew	s.[k]ˤraw	teach
	kaewH	s.kˤraw-s	teaching; instruction

說文解字

《說文》：“教，上所施下所效也。从攴，从。，古文教；，亦古文教。”

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)

mysterious Traditional

Original meaning: to store

Depicts two hands (廾) hiding rice (米) in a corner or a container. Based on the original meaning "to store". The meaning later shifted to "obscure", "profound", and "mysterious".

Components

◎ Iconic component

characterless component

Depicts a hidden corner or a container.

米 Iconic component

mǐ rice

Depicts grains of rice. Modern form looks like 釆.

Change in form

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

廾 Iconic component

gǒng two hands

Depicts two hands.

Change in form

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

Character Evolution

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Component uses

Sound (1)

澳

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	'awH	ʔˤuk-s	southwest corner of a house
	'juwk	ʔ(r)uk	cove in the bank of a stream

說文解字

《說文》：“奧，宛也。室之西南隅。从宀，聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 鄔可晶《釋「奧」》Wiktionary (JA)
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

奥 aò, ào, yù mysterious Simplified

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姆 mǔ woman looking after children

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真 zhēn real

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Character Evolution

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Sound (7 of 15 verified)

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理 lǐ, li reason

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說文解字

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教 jiào, jiāo teach

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奧 mysterious Traditional

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Character Evolution

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Sound (1)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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aò, ào, yù mysterious Simplified

mǔ woman looking after children

zhēn real

lǐ, li reason

jiào, jiāo teach

mysterious Traditional