Chinese Etymology

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Chinese Etymology

Uncle Hanzi (汉字叔叔)
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Character:

Character (單一漢字)
English Senses For (英文): xiang4
to incline toward / to direct to / to guide / to approach / ( now rarely ) to advise

English Senses For (英文): xiang1
country contrasted with a city or town / rural / a small administrative unit comprising several villages / one's native place or birth-place / one's villages / one's country / alternate 鄕

Simplified (簡體字):
Unicode := 4E61
GB2312-80 := CFE7


Simplification (簡化方法):
universal simplification 112
simplified with 1 different traditional

Traditional (繁體字):
Unicode := 9109
Big5 := B66D


(聲字部分):
鄉 xiang1 xiang4 皀 xiang1 (productive phonetic)

(有意部分):
阝邑 yi4 city


Etymology (文字來源):
Phonetic Signific, of the city阝邑 (right and left) - ones village

Mandarin (普通話): Chinese

Cantonese (廣東話): Analyze

Taiwanese (臺灣話): Analyze

Shanghaiese (上海話): Analyze

Japanese (日本話): Analyze

Korean (韩国話): Analyze Listen

History of Chinese Writing

中國文字的歷史

Spoken Chinese and Other Languages

Unicode Tests

Chinese Equivalent Websites

Chinese Encoding and Conversion

Enable XP for maximum Chinese

ShuoWen: (說文解字):
國離邑民所封鄉也嗇夫別治封圻之內六鄉六鄉治之從D861 DEDC皀聲


Seal (說文解字裏的篆體字)

S04777

LST Seal (六書通裏的篆體字) Characters

L32781 L32782 L32783 L32784 L32785 L32786 L32787
L32788 L32789 L32790 L32791 L09668 L09669 L09670
L09671 L09672 L09673 L09674 L09675


Bronze (金文编) Characters - none known


Oracle (甲骨文编裏的字) Characters

J15851

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