盲打 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

mángdǎ

touch-type

máng blind

Losing 亡 one's sight 目; 亡 also provides the pronunciation

Components

亡 Sound Meaning component

wáng death

目 Meaning component

mù eye

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	mæng	mˤ<r>aŋ	blind
Zhengzhang		mraːŋ

說文解字

目無牟子。从目亡聲。

Sources

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

dǎ, da strike

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 丁 represents the sound.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

丁 Sound component

dīng cubes

Change in sound

打 and 丁 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
打 děng
丁 teng

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咑

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		rteŋʔ
		teːŋʔ
Unicode	děng

說文解字

《說文新附》：“打，擊也。从手，丁聲。”

Sources

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

盲 máng blind

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說文解字

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打 dǎ, da strike

Components

Character Evolution

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Sound (0 of 1 verified)

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說文解字

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máng blind

dǎ, da strike