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shuìpáo

nightgown

shuì sleep

Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and 垂 represents the sound.

Components

目 Meaning component

mù eye

垂 Sound component

chuí droop

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	dzyweH	[d]o[j]-s	doze off

說文解字

坐寐也。从目、垂。

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)

páo long gown

A cloth 衤 wrap 包; 包 also provides the pronunciation

Components

衤 Meaning component

yī clothes

包 Sound Meaning component

bāo wrap

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	baw	m.[p]ˤu	long robe
Zhengzhang		buː
Unicode	bhɑu

說文解字

襺也。从衣包聲。《論語》曰：“衣弊緼袍。”

Sources

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