鞑靼海峡
Dá​dá Hǎi​xiá

Strait of Tartary

鞑 dá, tà tatars Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 革 represents the meaning and 达 represents the sound. Simplified form of 韃.

Components

革
革 Meaning component
gé leather
达
达 Sound component
dá arrive at

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

靼 dá tartars

Phonosemantic compound. 革 represents the meaning and 旦 represents the sound.

Components

革
革 Meaning component
gé leather
旦
旦 Sound component
dàn dawn

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangtaːd
tjad

說文解字

柔革也。从革，从旦聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

海 hǎi sea

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 每 represents the sound.

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

每
每 Sound component
měi every
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 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 Jin 266-420 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
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1)

嗨

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartxojXm̥ˤəʔ (dialect *m̥ˤ- > x-)sea

說文解字

《說文》：“海，天池也，以納百川者。从水，每聲。”

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)

峡 xiá gorge Simplified

The space between 夹 two mountains 山; 夹 also provides the pronunciation

Components

山
山 Meaning component
shān mountain
夹
夹 SoundMeaning component
jiā, jiá be wedged or inserted between, pressed from two sides

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

韃 tatars Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 革 represents the meaning and 達 represents the sound.

Components

革
革 Meaning component
gé leather
達
達 Sound component
dá arrive at

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

峽 xiá gorge Traditional

The space between 夾 two mountains 山; 夾 also provides the pronunciation

Components

山
山 Meaning component
shān mountain
夾
夾 SoundMeaning component
jiā, jiá be wedged or inserted between, pressed from two sides

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarthɛpN-kˤ<r>epmountain pass (not in GSR)
Zhengzhangɡreːb
Unicodehæp

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang