蕃育 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

fányù

breed

fán, fān, bō foreign things

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 番 represents the sound.

Components

艹 Meaning component

cao, cǎo grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

番 Sound component

fān to take turns

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC

Seal form — Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	pjon	par	hedge, screen, fence
	bjon	[b]ar	luxuriant (growth)
Zhengzhang		pan
		ban
Unicode	biæn

說文解字

艸茂也。从艸番聲。

Sources

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

yù to have children

Phonosemantic compound. 𠫓 represents the meaning and ⺼ represents the sound. Originally written as 毓.

Components

𠫓 Iconic component

tū, yù newborn

Depicts an upside-down child being born head-first. Upside-down rotation of 子.

⺼ Sound component

ròu meat, flesh

Change in sound

育 and ⺼ don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
育 yuwk
⺼ nyuwk

Character Evolution

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Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

唷淯

Unknown (0 of 1 verified)

澈

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	yuwk	m-quk	breed, produce

說文解字

養子使作善也。从𠫓肉聲。《虞書》曰：“教育子。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫季旭昇《說文新證》p.974
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

蕃 fán, fān, bō foreign things

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說文解字

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育 yù to have children

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

Unknown (0 of 1 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

fán, fān, bō foreign things

yù to have children