訥
nè

slow of speech

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Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 内 represents the sound.

Components

言
言 Meaning component
yán speech
内
内 Sound component
nèi inside

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartnwotnˤut slow of speech

說文解字

《說文》:“訥,言難也。从言,从內。”

Sources

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