why? what? where?

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approved by Prismcool · May 29, 2024, 05:13 PM · Reviewed by Prismcool on May 29, 2024, 05:13 PM

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Original meaning: cut fruit

Depicts a type of fruit with something cut off from it. The component that depicts the fruit was later reanalyzed as phonetic component . Based on the original meaning "cut fruit". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

Iconic component

Depicts something that has been cut from the fruit.

Iconic component

Depicts a fruit.


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-Sagarthat[g]ˤat what

說文解字

《說文》:“曷,何也。从曰,匃聲。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.387-388
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica