誊
téng

copy

Components

龹
龹 Sound component
juǎn to roll rice into a ball
言
言 Meaning component
yán speech

speech

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

謄 copy Traditional

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

Components

朕
朕 Sound component
zhèn pronoun 'I'
言
言 Meaning component
yán speech

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangl'ɯːŋ

說文解字

《說文》：“謄，迻書也。从言，朕聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)