斥 — Edit Snapshot — Chinese Character Wiki

chì HSK7

to scold

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Original meaning: develop new land

Phonosemantic compond: 广 represents the meaning and 乇 represents the sound. Originally a variant form of 宅, based on the original meaning "to develop new land". The meaning later shifted to "expand", "get rid of", "rebuff", and "scold".

Components

广 Meaning component

乇 Sound component

Change in sound

斥 and 乇 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 乇 than it was in ancient scripts.

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsyhek	tʰAk	rebuff; salty soil

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.724-725漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart