洗洁剂 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

xǐjiéjì

detergent

xǐ wash

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 先 represents the sound.

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

先 Sound component

xiān first

Change in sound

洗 and 先 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
洗 *sˤərʔ
先 *sˤər

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	sejX	[s]ˤərʔ	wash
	senX	sˤərʔ	wash

說文解字

《說文》：“洗，洒足也。从水，先聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

jié clean Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 吉 represents the sound. Simplified form of 潔.

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

吉 Sound component

jí lucky

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

jì medicinal preparation Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 齐 represents the sound. Simplified form of 劑.

Components

刂 Meaning component

dāo knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

齐 Sound component

qí even

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

jié clean Traditional

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

water

絜 Sound component

jié, xié, qià a marking line

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	ket	[k]ˤet	pure, purify
Zhengzhang		keːd
Unicode	get

說文解字

瀞也。从水絜聲。

Sources

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

jì medicinal preparation Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 齊 represents the sound.

Components

刂 Meaning component

dāo knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

齊 Sound component

qí even, uniform

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	zliːls
	ʔslel

說文解字

齊也。从刀从齊，齊亦聲。

Sources

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

洗 xǐ wash

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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洁 jié clean Simplified

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剂 jì medicinal preparation Simplified

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潔 jié clean Traditional

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Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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劑 jì medicinal preparation Traditional

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Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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xǐ wash

jié clean Simplified

jì medicinal preparation Simplified

jié clean Traditional

jì medicinal preparation Traditional