旳 - Dong Chinese dictionary

bright

Original form of 的. 日 represents the meaning and 勺 represents the sound.

Components

日 Meaning component

rì

sun

勺 Sound component

sháo

spoon

旳 and 勺 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

勺

sháo

spoon, ladle; unit of volume

shuò

zhuó

dì

sháo

spoon; ladle; CL:把[bǎ]; abbr. for 公勺[gōngsháo], centiliter (unit of volume)

日

rì

sun; day; daytime

日

Rì

abbr. for 日本[Rìběn], Japan

日

rì

sun; day; date, day of the month

旳

dì

Miscellaneous

Strokes	7
Unicode	U+65F3
Shuowen	“旳，明也。从日，勺聲。《易》曰：‘為的顙。’”

Sources

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