dǔn, zhūn to doze

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
eye
Sound component
tún, zhūn village

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangtuːnʔ
tjuns

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang

guī turtle or tortoise

Simplified form of . Pictograph of a tortoise.

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode