Chinese

擋

/tɑŋ²¹⁴/
to block; to obstruct
  • Phono-semantic compound 形聲
  • HSK 5
  • TOCFL 6
  • radical 手
  • 16 strokes
  • 攩
  • 挡

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Origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *taːŋʔ, *taːŋs): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 當 (OC *taːŋ, *taːŋs).

From 當 (OC *taːŋ, “to have the value of; to be equal of; to face; vis-à-vis; to match”) and originally written as 當 (Wang, 1982).

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lineage

  • meaningChinese手 “hand (Classifier: 隻／只 m c mn; 雙／双 m mn; 對／对 c)”
  • soundChinese當 “to face; to turn towards”
    • soundChinese尚 “still; yet”
      • meaningChinese八 “eight”
      • soundChinese向 “to face”
        • ideaChinese宀 “a type of deep house with walls on all four sides, a roof, a main hall, and back rooms”
        • ideaChinese口 “mouth, especially the lips and internal mouth cavity (Classifier: 把 c)”
    • meaningChinese田 “farmland (Classifier: 塊／块 m c)”

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