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diào, tiáo adjust, tune Simplified

Simplified form of 調. Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 周 represents the sound.

Components

讠 Meaning component

yán speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

周 Sound component

zhōu cycle

Change in sound

调 and 周 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
调 *[d]ˤiw
周 *tiw

Historical Pronunciations

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode

dù, du measure

Phonosemantic compound. 又 represents the meaning (using a hand to measure something) and 石 represents the sound.

Components

石 Sound component

shí stone

Change in sound

度 and 石 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
度 *[d]ˤak
石 *dAk

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 石 than it was in ancient scripts.

又 Iconic component

yòu hand

Depicts a hand measuring something.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC

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Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

渡踱镀

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	duH	[d]ˤak-s	measure (n.)
	dak	[d]ˤak	measure (v.)

說文解字

法制也。从又，庶省聲。

Sources

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

diào, tiáo adjust, tune Traditional

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

Components

言 Meaning component

yán speech

周 Sound component

zhōu cycle

Change in sound

調 and 周 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
調 *[d]ˤiw
周 *tiw

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	dew	[d]ˤiw	tune (v.), adjust

說文解字

《說文》：“調，和也。从言，周聲。”

Sources

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

调 diào, tiáo adjust, tune Simplified

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度 dù, du measure

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

調 diào, tiáo adjust, tune Traditional

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

diào, tiáo adjust, tune Simplified

dù, du measure

diào, tiáo adjust, tune Traditional