甑
zèng

boiler for steaming rice

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Phonosemantic compound. 瓦 represents the meaning and 曾 represents the sound. Originally written as 曾.

Components

曾
曾 Sound component
瓦
瓦 Meaning component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttsingHS-təŋ-s boiler for steaming rice

說文解字

《說文》：“甑，甗也。从瓦，曾聲。，籀文甑，从。”

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)