淡颏仙鹟 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

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dànkēxiānwēng

pale-chinned flycatcher

dàn weak, bland, watery

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

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

炎 Sound component

yán flame

Character Evolution

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

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

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	damX	[l]ˤamʔ	insipid

說文解字

《說文》：“淡，薄味也。从水，炎聲。”

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)

kē, hái, ké chin Simplified

Components

亥 Sound component

hài, jiē 12th terrestrial branch

页 Meaning component

yè page

head

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

xian, xiān Taoist super-being

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 山 represents the sound. Simplified form of 僊.

Components

亻 Meaning component

rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

山 Sound component

shān mountain

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	sjen	[s]a[r]	immortal (n.)
Zhengzhang		sen
Unicode	siɛn
	siɛn

Sources

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

wēng Simplified

No origin information available for this character yet.

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

chin Traditional

Components

亥 Sound component

hài, jiē 12th terrestrial branch

頁 Meaning component

yè (head), page

head

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	kɯːʔ
	ɡɯː

說文解字

醜也。从頁亥聲。

Sources

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

鶲 Traditional

No origin information available for this character yet.

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode