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talk too much

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Phonosemantic compound. represents the sound while (eight) and (speech) represent the meaning.

Components

Sound component
Meaning component
Meaning component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsyem[t]am garrulous

說文解字

《說文》:“詹,多言也。从言,从八,从厃。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫季旭昇《說文新證》p.83-84
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica