朁
cǎn

if

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Phonosemantic compound. 曰 represents the meaning and 兓 represents the sound.

Components

兓
兓 Sound component
Change in sound
曰
曰 Meaning component
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 曰 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsʰlɯːmʔ
zlam

說文解字

《說文》：“朁，曾也。从曰，兓聲。《詩》曰：‘朁不畏明。’”

Sources

Character origin
zi.tools
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)