Components
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | tha | l̥ ˤaj | draw, pull |
| Zhengzhang | l̥ʰaːl | ||
| l̥ʰaːls |
Sources
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Original meaning: mouth like a torrent, speaking a lot
Depicts speech flowing out of the mouth (曰) like water (水). Based on the original meaning "mouth like a torrent, speaking a lot". The meaning later expanded to "repeated", "crowded", "join", and "unite".
Components
Character Evolution
Component uses
Sound (1)
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | dop | m-rˤəp | join, unite |
說文解字
《說文》：“沓，語多沓沓也。从水，从曰。遼東有沓縣。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 李学勤《字源》p.416-417
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-Sagart
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)