guì cassia or cinnamon

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
tree
Sound component
guī jade pointed at top

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Wu) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangkʷeːs
Unicodeguèi

說文解字

江南木,百藥之長。从木圭聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

yuán circle Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components

Meaning component
wéi, guó surround
Sound component
yuán member

Sources

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

yuán circle Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Originally written as .

Components

Meaning component
wéi, guó surround
Sound component
yuán member

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1)

Remnant (1)

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthjwenɢʷ<r>en round

說文解字

《說文》:“圓,圜。全也。从囗,員聲,讀若員。”

Sources

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