𠓥
biān

whip

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approved by cochleoid · Jun 16, 2022, 02:30 AM · Reviewed by cochleoid on Jun 16, 2022, 02:30 AM

Realized that although it was originally iconic, once a component is phoneticized the "iconic" flag doesn't apply to the character the component phoneticized into.

Changed fields: components

Original form of 鞭 (whip). Depicts a hand holding a whip or a staff. 免 was later added as sound component.

Components

免
免 Iconic component

Absent in early forms. Resembled the old form of 丙 (pedestal), thought to depict a cart, before phoneticizing into 免.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 免 than it was in ancient scripts.
攴
攴 Iconic component

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartpjienpe[n]whip (n.)

說文解字

《說文》：“鞭，驅也。从革，便聲。，古文鞭。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇 《說文新證》 p.188
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)