撞击坑 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

zhuàngjīkēng

impact crater

zhuàng knock against

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

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

童 Sound component

tóng child

Change in sound

撞 and 童 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
撞 draewng
童 duwng

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	draewng	[N-t]ˤ<r>oŋ	strike
	draewngH	N-tˤ<r>oŋ-s	strike

說文解字

《說文》：“撞，卂擣也。从手，童聲。”

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)

jī strike Simplified

Simplified form of 擊. Based on the cursive form of the phonetic component 毄.

Components

毄 Sound Simplified Remnant component

to hit against

手 Deleted component

shǒu, shou hand

This component was deleted for simplification.

Component uses

Simplified (1)

陆

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

kēng pit

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 亢 represents the sound. Simplified form of 阬.

Components

土 Meaning component

tǔ earth

亢 Sound component

kàng, gāng, gēng high

Character Evolution

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		kʰraːŋ
Unicode	kæng

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica

jī strike Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 毄 represents the sound and 手 represents the meaning.

Components

毄 Sound Meaning component

to hit against

手 Meaning component

shǒu, shou hand

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	kek	kˤik	strike (v.)

說文解字

《說文》：“擊，攴也。从手，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)

撞 zhuàng knock against

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击 jī strike Simplified

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Component uses

Simplified (1)

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坑 kēng pit

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擊 jī strike Traditional

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zhuàng knock against

jī strike Simplified

kēng pit

jī strike Traditional