Original meaning: land tax
Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the meaning and 且 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "land tax". The meaning later shifted to "rent" and "hire".
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | |
|---|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | ʔsaː | |
| Unicode | tzo |
說文解字
《說文》：“租，田賦也。从禾，且聲。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Zhengzhang Shangfang
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)
Traditional
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | dzrænX | [dz]ˤr[a][n]ʔ | shed |
| dzrænH | [dz]ˤr[a][n]-s | shed | |
| dzrɛnX | [dz]r[a][n]ʔ | shed | |
| Zhengzhang | zreːnʔ | ||
| zraːns | |||
| zrenʔ | |||
| Unicode | jrhàn |
說文解字
棚也。竹木之車曰棧。从木戔聲。
Sources
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)