損
sǔn HSK7

diminish, lose

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

Components

扌
扌 Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

員
員 Sound component
yuán member

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 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-SagartswonX[s-q]ʷˤə[n]ʔ diminish, damage

說文解字

《說文》：“損，減也。从手，員聲。”

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)

损 sǔn diminish, lose Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 员 represents the sound. Simplified form of 損.

Components

扌
扌 Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

员
员 Sound component
yuán member

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode