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wājué HSK7

excavate

wā dig

To dig out 扌 a hollow 穵; 穵 also provides the pronunciation

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

穵 Sound Meaning component

wā, yà deep hollow

Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	qʷriːd

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang

jué dig

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

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

屈 Sound component

qū, qu bend

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	gjut	[ɡ]ut	dig out (earth)
	gjwot	[ɡ]ot	dig out (earth)
Zhengzhang		ɡlod
		ɡlud
Unicode	ghiuæt
	ghiuət

說文解字

搰也。从手屈聲。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)