席勒 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

Xílè

Schiller

xí seat, mat

Phonosemantic compound. 巾 represents the meaning and 庶 represents the sound.

Components

shù, zhù, zhē numerous

Change in sound

席 and 庶 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
席 *s-m-tAk
庶 *s-tak-s

巾 Meaning component

jīn cloth

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC

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

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	zjek	s-m-tAk	mat

說文解字

《說文》：“席，籍也。《禮》：‘天子、諸侯席，有黼繡純飾。’从巾，庶省。，古文席，从石省。”

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)

lēi bridle, rein in, strangle

Phonosemantic compound. 革 represents the meaning and 力 represents the sound.

Components

革 Meaning component

gé leather

力 Sound component

lì, li power

Character Evolution

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Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

嘞鳓

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	lok	[r]ˤək	engrave
	lok	[r]ˤək	bridle

說文解字

《說文》：“勒，馬頭絡銜也。从革，力聲。”

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)

席 xí seat, mat

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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勒 lēi bridle, rein in, strangle

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

xí seat, mat

lēi bridle, rein in, strangle