島
dǎo HSK6

island

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Phonosemantic compound. 山 represents the meaning and 鳥 represents the sound.

Components

山
山 Meaning component
shān mountain
鳥
鳥 Sound component
niǎo bird

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttawXtˤuʔ island

說文解字

《說文》:“,海中往往有山可依止曰。”

Sources

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