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jiāxiè

shackles

jiā, jià cangue scaffold

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 加 represents the sound.

Components

木 Meaning component

mù tree

加 Sound component

jiā add

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	ɡa
	ɡal
	kraːl

說文解字

柫也。从木加聲。淮南謂之柍。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

xiè weapons

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 戒 represents the sound.

Components

木 Meaning component

mù tree

戒 Sound component

jiè warn

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	hɛjH	[m-k]ˤrək-s	fetters; weapon
Zhengzhang		ɡrɯːɡs

說文解字

桎梏也。从木戒聲。一曰器之緫名。一曰持也。一曰有盛爲械，無盛爲器。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)