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dúdòu HSK1

read

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

Components

言 Meaning component

𧸇 Sound component

The original sound component 𧸇 was later corrupted to the visually and semantically similar character 賣.

Change in sound

讀 and 𧸇 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

Regular Modern

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	duwk	C.lˤok	read (v.)

《說文》：“讀，誦書也。从言，賣聲。”