流落他乡 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

liú flow

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

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

㐬 Sound Iconic component

liú birth

Depicts an upside-down child (子) being born headfirst with amniotic fluid flowing out.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

鎏

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	ljuw	ru	flow (v.)

說文解字

《說文》：“，水行也。从沝、，，突忽也。流，篆文从水。”

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)

luò, là fall

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 洛 represents the sound.

Components

艹 Meaning component

cao, cǎo grass

艹 is a component form of 艸. Alludes to leaves falling from trees.

洛 Sound component

luò river in Shanxi province

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	lak	kə.rˤak	fall (v.)

說文解字

凡艸曰零，木曰落。从艸洛聲。

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)

tā he

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 也 represents the sound.

Components

亻 Meaning component

rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

也 Sound component

yě also

Change in sound

他 and 也 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
他 *l̥ˤaj (E dialect: *l̥ˤ- > MC th-)
也 *lAjʔ

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tha	l̥ˤaj (E dialect: *l̥ˤ- > MC th-)	another

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica

xiāng hometown Simplified

Simplified form of 鄉. Pictograph of two people facing each other, kneeling down to share a meal. Based on the original meaning "feast" or "offer food", now written as 饗. The meaning later shifted to "hometown". The right two components were removed for simplification.

Components

卩 Iconic component

jié person kneeling

Depicts a kneeling person facing right.

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 卩 than it was in ancient scripts.

飠 Deleted component

eat

卩 Deleted component

jié person kneeling

Depicts a kneeling person facing left.

Component uses

Sound (1 of 2 verified)

飨芗

Simplified (0 of 1 verified)

芗

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

xiāng hometown Traditional

Original meaning: feast, offer food

Pictograph of two people facing each other, kneeling down to share a meal. Based on the original meaning "feast" or "offer food", now written as 饗. The meaning later shifted to "hometown".