改版 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

gǎibǎn HSK7

revise

gǎi change

Phonosemantic compound. 攵 represents the meaning and 己 represents the sound.

Components

jǐ self

Change in sound

改 and 己 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
改 kojX
己 kiX

攵 Meaning component

pū tap

攵 is a component form of 攴.

Character Evolution

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	kojX	C.qˤəʔ	change (v.)

說文解字

《說文》：“改，更也。从攴、己。”

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)

bǎn printing block, edition

Phonosemantic compound. 片 represents the meaning and 反 represents the sound.

Components

片 Meaning component

piàn, piān slice

反 Sound component

fǎn reverse

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		praːnʔ
Unicode	bǎn

說文解字

《說文》：“版，判也。从片，反聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

改 gǎi change

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

版 bǎn printing block, edition

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

gǎi change

bǎn printing block, edition