HSK6

fame

Word of one's success 

Components

Meaning component
xìng, xīng rise, flourish
Meaning component
yán speech

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

fame Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
yán speech
Sound component
yǔ, yù together with

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
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-Sagartyom-q(r)apraise (v.)
yoH[ɢ](r)a-sjoy
yoHm-q(r)a-spraise, renown
Zhengzhangla
las
Unicode

說文解字

(纤)也。从言與聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica