dà
reach to
Original meaning:
sob
Depicts water (水) coming from the eye (目). Based on the original meaning "sob", now written as 泣. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-rˤəp | dop | tà | reach to; and |
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+7714 |
Shuowen | “眔，目相及也。从目，从隶省。” |
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