visit

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
yán speech
Sound component
hé, è, hè why? what? where?

Character Evolution

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

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagart'jotqatgo to visit
Zhengzhangqad
Unicodeqiæt

說文解字

白也。从言曷聲。

Sources

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

yè, ǎi visit Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components

Meaning component
yán speech

is a component form of .

Sound component
hé, è, hè why? what? where?

Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode