降压 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

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)

yā press, push down Simplified

Simplified form of 壓. Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 厌 represents the sound.

Components

土 Meaning component

tǔ earth

厌 Sound Simplified component

yàn dislike

Sources

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

yā press, push down Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 厭 represents the sound.

Components

厭 Sound Meaning component

yàn dislike

土 Meaning component

tǔ earth

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	'aep	ʔˤrep	press down

說文解字

《說文》：“壓，壞也。一曰塞補。从土，厭聲。”

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)

降 jiàng, xiáng descend

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压 yā press, push down Simplified

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壓 yā press, push down Traditional

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jiàng, xiáng descend

yā press, push down Simplified

yā press, push down Traditional