抄件 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

chāojiàn

copy

chāo copy, grab

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 少 represents the sound.

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

少 Sound component

shǎo, shao, shào few

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	sm̥ʰreːw
	sm̥ʰreːws

Depicts a person (亻) cutting a cow (牛) into pieces.

亻 Meaning component

rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

牛 Meaning component

niú cow

Regular Modern

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	gjenX	[g]r[a][n]ʔ (no pre-Qín exx?)	item

《說文》：“件，分也。从人，从牛。牛，大物，故可分。”