little lamb

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Sound component
dà, dài big
Meaning component
yáng sheep

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1)

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangtʰaːd

說文解字

《說文》:“羍,小羊也。从羊,大聲。讀若達。,羍或省。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica