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jiàngdào

drop to

jiàng, xiáng descend

Depicts two feet (夅) descending down a hill (阝).

Components

阝 Iconic component

fù hill, place

阝 is a component form of 阜. Depicts a hill.

夅 Sound Iconic component

jiàng, xiáng to descend

Depicts two feet walking down a hill.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC

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

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	kaewngH	kˤruŋ-s (? < *-[u]m-s)	descend
	haewng	m-kˤru[ŋ] (? < *-[u]m)	submit

說文解字

《說文》：“降，下也。从，夅聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫張世超《金文形義通解》p.3353
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

dào, dao go to

Phonosemantic compound. 至 represents the meaning and 刂 represents the sound.

Components

至 Meaning component

zhì reach

Depicts an arrow arriving at its target.

刂 Sound component

dāo knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Character Evolution

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Component uses

Sound (1)

倒

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tawH	tˤaw[k]-s	arrive

說文解字

《說文》：“到，至也。从至，刀聲。”

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

降 jiàng, xiáng descend

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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到 dào, dao go to

Components

Character Evolution

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Sound (1)

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說文解字

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jiàng, xiáng descend

dào, dao go to