速度 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

sùdù HSK3

speed

sù quick

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

Components

辶 Meaning component

chuò walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

束 Sound component

shù bind

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC

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

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	suwk	[s]ˤok	invite
	suwk	[s]ˤok	rapid

說文解字

疾也。从辵束聲。

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)

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

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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)

速 sù quick

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

度 dù, du measure

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

sù quick

dù, du measure