奧 — Edit Snapshot — Chinese Character Wiki

àoào

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Original meaning: to store

Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and 𢍏 represents the sound.

Components

宀 Meaning component

𢍏 Sound component

Change in sound

奧 and 𢍏 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

Change in form

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

Regular Modern

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	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》：“奧，宛也。室之西南隅。从宀，聲。”