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sòngzhōng

attend dying senior

sòng see off

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 灷 represents the sound.

Components

辶 Meaning component

chuò walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

灷 Sound component

zhuàn seal up gaps of a boat

Modern form looks like 关.

Change in sound

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

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC

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 Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	suwngH	[s]ˤoŋ-s	escort (v.), send

說文解字

遣也。从辵，㑞省。

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)

zhōng end Simplified

Simplified form of 終. Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 冬 represents the sound.

Components

纟 Meaning component

mì silk

纟 is a component form of 糸.

冬 Sound Iconic component

dōng winter

Depicts a rope with knots at both ends

說文解字

龜名。从龜夂聲。夂，古文終字。

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

zhōng end Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 冬 represents the sound.

Components

糹 Meaning component

mì silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

冬 Sound Iconic component

dōng winter

Depicts a rope with knots at both ends

Character Evolution

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

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 Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsyuwng	tuŋ	end

說文解字

《說文》：“終，絿絲也。从糸，冬聲。，古文終。”

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)