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Shang (Shi)	Shang (Wuming)	Early W.Zhou	Early W.Zhou	Chunqiu (Qin)	Zhanguo (Qin)	Zhanguo (Qin)	Qin	W.Han	E.Han	E.Han	Tang
合20924	屯873 [霸]	集6015 [明]	集2661	集證67	秦陶1610	青川木牘	睡.日乙101	北.雨Z1	五.行88B	五.行209A	五經文字

{夕} *sə.lak “night” & {月} *ŋʷat “moon”

夕 + differentiative dot. Initially 夕 was used for both words {月} and {夕}. Later 月 appeared and began to be used for {夕}. Later it began to be used for {月}.

• 陳劍 2007 - 甲骨金文考釋論集・殷墟卜辭的分期分類對甲骨文字考釋的重要性
• 季旭昇 2014 - 說文新證 [2nd ed.] (548-549)
• 裘錫圭 2013 - 文字學概要 [2nd ed.] [2021 form.] (7-8, 169)

朋¹

Shang (Bin)	Early W.Zhou	Late W.Zhou	Qin	W.Han	E.Han	Nanbei (N.Wei)	Nanbei (E.Wei)	Ming	Qing
合13	集3667	集2835	睡.種125 [傰]	馬.易44上	熹237	元靈曜墓誌	李挺墓誌	洪武正韻	內本康熙

{朋} *[b]ˤəŋ “friend”

人 PERSON + ♪朋² *PƏŊ.

• 黃文傑 2000 - 說朋
• 李家浩 2013 - 《說文》篆文有漢代小学家簒改和虛造的字形

朋²

Shang	Shang (Shi)
集9808	合11445

{朋} *[b]ˤəŋ “peng (unit of shell money)”

Depiction of a bundle of cowrie shells. The modern form is based on an early assumption that this glyph is the same as 朋¹.

• 黃文傑 2000 - 說朋
• 李家浩 2013 - 《說文》篆文有漢代小学家簒改和虛造的字形

Shang (Shi)	Shang	Shang	Shang (Shi)	Shang (Ya)	Shang (Bin)	Early W.Zhou	Late W.Zhou	Zhanguo (Chu)	W.Han	E.Han	Tang
合20619	H11:84	集3106	合20610	合22307	合5016	集4205	集10244	清八.攝命28	馬.經10下	杖書9	唐1404C

{䑣} *C̥.lrəm “to go (about a boat)” ♪→ {朕} *lrəmʔ “I, me”

Depiction of a person pushing a boat (舟 > 月) with a pole.

• 鄔可晶 & 施瑞峰 2022 - 說“朕”“灷”