謠
yáo

sing

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言䍃

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

Components

䍃
䍃 Sound component
yáo, yóu vase, pitcher
言
言 Meaning component
yán speech

Character Evolution

Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartyewlaw sing; song

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica