沉箱 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

chénxiāng

caisson

chén, chēn sink

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 冘 represents the sound. Variant of 沈.

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

冘 Sound component

yín, yóu to move on

Regular Modern

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		l'um
Unicode	djhim

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 相 represents the sound.

⺮ Meaning component

zhú bamboo

⺮ is a component form of 竹.

相 Sound component

xiāng, xiàng mutual

Regular Modern

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	sjang	C.[s]aŋ	box (of a carriage)

《說文》：“箱，大車牝服也。从竹，相聲。”