dā, dá
small bean
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 合 represents the sound. Used as a variant of 答.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[t]ˤ[ə]p | top | dá | small bean |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
7468th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+8345 |
Shuowen | “荅,小尗也。从艸,合聲。” |
Sources
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