ruò

burn

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berify

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Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component

grass

Sound component

heat

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartnywetnot to burn

說文解字

《說文》:“爇,燒也。从火,蓺聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘爇僖負覉。’”

Sources

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