Original meaning: porridge
Depicts porridge being made from rice (米) cooking in a steamy cooking vessel (䰜). Based on the original meaning "porridge", now written as 粥. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | yuwk | m-quk | nourish |
| tsyuwk | t-quk | rice gruel |
說文解字
《說文》：“鬻，也。从，米聲。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 李学勤《字源》p.215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)