跳蚤
tiào​zao

flea

跳 tiào jump

Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 兆 represents the sound.

Components

足
足 Meaning component
zú foot
兆
兆 Sound component
zhào omen

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdewlˤew jump

說文解字

《說文》：“跳，蹶也。从足，兆聲。一曰躍也。”

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)

蚤 zǎo, zhǎo flea

Components

叉
叉 Sound component
chā, chá, chǎ fork, prong
虫
虫 Meaning component
chóng bug, insect

insect

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
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 5 verified)

骚搔瘙騷鳋

Meaning (0 of 3 verified)

骚搔騷

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttsawXtsˤuʔflea
Zhengzhangʔsuːʔ
Unicodetzɑ̌u

Sources

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