Dong Chinese dictionary

shuò

great

Phonosemantic compound. 石 represents the sound and 頁 represents the meaning.

Components

shí, dàn

stone

碩 and 石 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.碩 /*[d]Ak/
石 /*dAk/

頁 Meaning component

yè, xié

(head), page

Evolution

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

shuò

great, eminent; large, big; large; big

Most common words with 碩

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