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wǎng HSK2

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Phonosemantic compound. 彳 and 止 represent the meaning, and 王 represents the sound.

Components

彳
彳 Meaning component

彳 is a component form of 行.

止
止 Meaning component

Depicts a foot. Abbreviated to a single stroke in the modern form.

王
王 Sound component

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarthjwangXɢʷaŋʔ go to

說文解字

《說文》：“往，之也。从彳，聲。，古文从辵。”

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)