岳普湖 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

yuè mountain peak

A mountain 山 range surrounded by hills 丘

Components

丘 Meaning component

qiū hill

山 Meaning component

shān mountain

Character Evolution

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

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	ngæwk	[ŋ]ˤrok	mountain, peak
Zhengzhang		ŋroːɡ
Unicode	ngak

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica

pǔ universal

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 並 represents the sound.

Components

並 Sound component

side by side

Change in sound

普 and 並 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
普 pʰaːʔ
並 *[b]ˤeŋʔ

日 Meaning component

rì sun

Character Evolution

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Sound (0 of 5 verified)

谱氆镨譜潽

Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	pʰaːʔ

說文解字

《說文》：“暜，日無色也。从日，从竝。”

Sources

Character origin: zdic
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

hú a lake

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 胡 represents the sound.

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

胡 Sound component

hú beard

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	hu	[g]ˤa	lake

說文解字

《說文》：“湖，大陂也。从水，胡聲。揚州浸有五湖。浸，川澤所仰以灌溉也。”

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)

岳 yuè mountain peak

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普 pǔ universal

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湖 hú a lake

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說文解字

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yuè mountain peak

pǔ universal

hú a lake