衰
shuāi HSK7

decline

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Original meaning: raincoat made from straw or grass

Depicts a woven raincoat (衣) made from either grass or straw. Based on the original meaning "raincoat made from straw or grass", now written as 蓑. The meaning later shifted to "weaken" and "decline".

Components

衣
衣 Iconic component
yī clothes
◎
◎ Iconic component
characterless component

Depicts woven grass or straw.


Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Western Zhou 1045-771 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttshwoj[s.r̥]ˤruj mourning clothes
tsrhjwe[tsʰ]roj reduce
srwijsruj diminish, decline

說文解字

《說文》：“衰，艸雨衣。秦謂之萆。从衣象形。，古文衰。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫季旭昇《說文新證》p.665-666zi.tools
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)