旱伞
hàn​sǎn

parasol

旱 hàn drought

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 干 represents the sound.

Components

日
日 Meaning component
rì sun
干
干 Sound component
gàn, gān interfere

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Spring and Autumn 771-476 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1 of 7 verified)

悍捍焊趕稈銲桿

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

稈

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarthanX[g]ˤa[r]ʔ dry, drought

說文解字

《說文》：“旱，不雨也。从日，干聲。”

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)

伞 sǎn umbrella Simplified

Simplified form of 傘. Pictograph of an umbrella.

Sources

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

傘 sǎn umbrella Traditional

Pictograph of an umbrella.

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartsanX[s]ˤarʔ umbrella, parasol

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart