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Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern
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Phonosemantic compound. The 山 (mountain) and 厂 (cliff) components hint at the landscape-related meaning. 干 represents the sound.
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | nganH | [ŋ]ˤa[r]-s | bank of a river |
說文解字
《說文》：“岸，水厓而高者。从屵，干聲。”
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)