悲泣 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

bēiqì

weep

bēi sorrow

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 非 represents the sound.

Components

非 Sound component

fēi not

心 Meaning component

xīn, xin heart

Character Evolution

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

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	pij	prəj	sad

說文解字

《說文》：“悲，痛也。从心，非聲。”

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)

qì cry

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

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

立 Sound component

lì stand

Change in sound

泣 and 立 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
泣 *k-r̥əp
立 *k.rəp

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	khip	k-r̥əp	weep

說文解字

《說文》：“泣，無聲出涕曰泣。从水，立聲。”

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)

悲 bēi sorrow

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

泣 qì cry

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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bēi sorrow

qì cry