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shuì HSK6

taxes

Simplified form of 稅. Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the meaning and 兌 represents the sound.

Components

禾 Meaning component

hé grain stalk

兑 Sound component

duì, ruì, duó exchange

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	sywejH	l̥ot-s	tax

Sources

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

shuì taxes Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the meaning and 兌 represents the sound.

Components

禾 Meaning component

hé grain stalk

兌 Sound component

exchange

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	sywejH	l̥ ot-s	tax
Zhengzhang		hljods

說文解字

《說文》：“稅，租也。从禾，兌聲。”

Sources

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