Glyph Origins

Radical ⽔ (85)

水 (U+6C34)

Shang
(Shi)
Shang
(Shi)
Shang
(Bin)
Early
W.Zhou
Chunqiu
(Qin)
QinQinW.HanHanHanNanbei
(N.Wei)
合20615合20660合10151正集4330石鼓.吾水陶錄6.204.1北.白囊北.老141居舊274.36肩73EJT33:71A南0091X

{水} *s.turʔ “water”

Abstract depiction of flowing water and water drops.

  • 季旭昇 2014 - 說文新證 [2nd ed.] (795)

求 (U+6C42)

ShangShang
(Shi)
Shang
(Shi)
Shang
(Bin)
Middle
W.Zhou
QinQinW.HanE.HanE.HanNanbei
(N.Wei)
Tang
集7567合21461
[⿲丨求丨]
合21487合14615集4178里耶8-296睡.爲27北.周93華山廟碑中國文物報1993.11南0033X九經字樣

{蛷} *[ɡ]u “centipede” ♪→ {求} *[ɡ]u “to seek”

Depiction of a centipede.

  • 唐蘭 1949 - 中國文字學 (64-65)
  • 裘錫圭 1986 - 釋“求”
  • 季旭昇 2014 - 說文新證 [2nd ed.] (896-897)

津 (U+6D25)

Zhanguo
(Chu)
QinQinW.HanHanE.HanNanbei
(E.Wei)
清二.繫年132秦風23里8-651正銀二1554肩73EJT4:101淳于長夏承碑南0419X

{津} *[ts]i[n] “ford”

WATER + ♪𦘔 *TSIN (> 聿).

  • 林志強 & al. (ed.) 2017 - 《文源》評注 (607)
  • 季旭昇 2014 - 說文新證 [2nd ed.] (218-219)

溢 (U+6EA2)

Shang
(Bin)
Middle
W.Zhou
Zhanguo
(Chu)
W.HanHanE.HanTangMing
合811正
[易]
集10322
[易]
清三.芮良夫9
[⿱溢皿]
北.蒼30肩73EJT31:44A+T30:55A漢0097X九經字樣明0004X

{溢} *lik “to overflow”

WATER + ♪ *LEK (> 益).

  • 謝明文 2019 - 甲骨文舊釋“益”之字新釋——兼“易”字新探
  • 張鑫裕 2019 - 漢碑字詞零釋及相關問題研究・古文字中舊釋“益”之字新釋——兼說“益”“溢”非古今字