What is the story behind “peach kanji” 桃?
I wanna know why this kanji is containing the tree kanji 木 + the omen kanji 兆 ? What is the relation between tree and omen to give us a kanji for the peach ? Is it a historical story?
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In many kanji, some of the components do not provide meaning, but only sound.「桃」(On'yomi: とう) is made up of semantic「木」(tree) and phonetic「兆」(On'yomi: ちょう).
Remember: Kanji were created for Chinese vocabulary, so the phonetic component is only relevant to On'yomi.
Here's some relevant vocabulary with these On'yomi readings:
[桃花]{とうか} (peach blossom)
[吉兆]{きっちょう} (good omen)
what is the relation between とう and ちょう readings
Phonetic components of kanji are generally approximations. Due to the long history and wide geographical spread of Chinese characters, the readings have changed over space and time in China and even further changed in Japan. Diverging pronunciations over space and time is natural, and is one of the mechanisms behind the development of different accents from a single source language.
とう and ちょう are similar; the initial consonant of と is /t/ (see Voiceless dental and alveolar stops) and the initial consonant of ちょ is /t͡ɕ/ (see Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate), which are both alveolar consonants, pronounced in roughly the same parts of the mouth.
Related sounds are prone to changing into each other over time.
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I got it , but i'm still have a question
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Just wanna know what it is the relation between the reading ちょう and the reading とう ? Is there a rule or somthing like that or just because these readings are similar? This will help me a lot ..thanks
– user32763
2 hours ago
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In many kanji, some of the components do not provide meaning, but only sound.「桃」(On'yomi: とう) is made up of semantic「木」(tree) and phonetic「兆」(On'yomi: ちょう).
Remember: Kanji were created for Chinese vocabulary, so the phonetic component is only relevant to On'yomi.
Here's some relevant vocabulary with these On'yomi readings:
[桃花]{とうか} (peach blossom)
[吉兆]{きっちょう} (good omen)
what is the relation between とう and ちょう readings
Phonetic components of kanji are generally approximations. Due to the long history and wide geographical spread of Chinese characters, the readings have changed over space and time in China and even further changed in Japan. Diverging pronunciations over space and time is natural, and is one of the mechanisms behind the development of different accents from a single source language.
とう and ちょう are similar; the initial consonant of と is /t/ (see Voiceless dental and alveolar stops) and the initial consonant of ちょ is /t͡ɕ/ (see Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate), which are both alveolar consonants, pronounced in roughly the same parts of the mouth.
Related sounds are prone to changing into each other over time.
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I got it , but i'm still have a question
– user32763
2 hours ago
Just wanna know what it is the relation between the reading ちょう and the reading とう ? Is there a rule or somthing like that or just because these readings are similar? This will help me a lot ..thanks
– user32763
2 hours ago
@user32763 see edits.
– droooze
2 hours ago
Really thanks for you big help ❤
– user32763
2 hours ago
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In many kanji, some of the components do not provide meaning, but only sound.「桃」(On'yomi: とう) is made up of semantic「木」(tree) and phonetic「兆」(On'yomi: ちょう).
Remember: Kanji were created for Chinese vocabulary, so the phonetic component is only relevant to On'yomi.
Here's some relevant vocabulary with these On'yomi readings:
[桃花]{とうか} (peach blossom)
[吉兆]{きっちょう} (good omen)
what is the relation between とう and ちょう readings
Phonetic components of kanji are generally approximations. Due to the long history and wide geographical spread of Chinese characters, the readings have changed over space and time in China and even further changed in Japan. Diverging pronunciations over space and time is natural, and is one of the mechanisms behind the development of different accents from a single source language.
とう and ちょう are similar; the initial consonant of と is /t/ (see Voiceless dental and alveolar stops) and the initial consonant of ちょ is /t͡ɕ/ (see Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate), which are both alveolar consonants, pronounced in roughly the same parts of the mouth.
Related sounds are prone to changing into each other over time.
answered 2 hours ago
drooozedroooze
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I got it , but i'm still have a question
– user32763
2 hours ago
Just wanna know what it is the relation between the reading ちょう and the reading とう ? Is there a rule or somthing like that or just because these readings are similar? This will help me a lot ..thanks
– user32763
2 hours ago
@user32763 see edits.
– droooze
2 hours ago
Really thanks for you big help ❤
– user32763
2 hours ago
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In many kanji, some of the components do not provide meaning, but only sound.「桃」(On'yomi: とう) is made up of semantic「木」(tree) and phonetic「兆」(On'yomi: ちょう).
Remember: Kanji were created for Chinese vocabulary, so the phonetic component is only relevant to On'yomi.
Here's some relevant vocabulary with these On'yomi readings:
[桃花]{とうか} (peach blossom)
[吉兆]{きっちょう} (good omen)
what is the relation between とう and ちょう readings
Phonetic components of kanji are generally approximations. Due to the long history and wide geographical spread of Chinese characters, the readings have changed over space and time in China and even further changed in Japan. Diverging pronunciations over space and time is natural, and is one of the mechanisms behind the development of different accents from a single source language.
とう and ちょう are similar; the initial consonant of と is /t/ (see Voiceless dental and alveolar stops) and the initial consonant of ちょ is /t͡ɕ/ (see Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate), which are both alveolar consonants, pronounced in roughly the same parts of the mouth.
Related sounds are prone to changing into each other over time.
answered 2 hours ago
drooozedroooze
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In many kanji, some of the components do not provide meaning, but only sound.「桃」(On'yomi: とう) is made up of semantic「木」(tree) and phonetic「兆」(On'yomi: ちょう).
Remember: Kanji were created for Chinese vocabulary, so the phonetic component is only relevant to On'yomi.
Here's some relevant vocabulary with these On'yomi readings:
[桃花]{とうか} (peach blossom)
[吉兆]{きっちょう} (good omen)
what is the relation between とう and ちょう readings
Phonetic components of kanji are generally approximations. Due to the long history and wide geographical spread of Chinese characters, the readings have changed over space and time in China and even further changed in Japan. Diverging pronunciations over space and time is natural, and is one of the mechanisms behind the development of different accents from a single source language.
とう and ちょう are similar; the initial consonant of と is /t/ (see Voiceless dental and alveolar stops) and the initial consonant of ちょ is /t͡ɕ/ (see Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate), which are both alveolar consonants, pronounced in roughly the same parts of the mouth.
Related sounds are prone to changing into each other over time.
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I got it , but i'm still have a question
– user32763
2 hours ago
Just wanna know what it is the relation between the reading ちょう and the reading とう ? Is there a rule or somthing like that or just because these readings are similar? This will help me a lot ..thanks
– user32763
2 hours ago
@user32763 see edits.
– droooze
2 hours ago
Really thanks for you big help ❤
– user32763
2 hours ago
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I got it , but i'm still have a question
– user32763
2 hours ago
Just wanna know what it is the relation between the reading ちょう and the reading とう ? Is there a rule or somthing like that or just because these readings are similar? This will help me a lot ..thanks
– user32763
2 hours ago
@user32763 see edits.
– droooze
2 hours ago
Really thanks for you big help ❤
– user32763
2 hours ago
I got it , but i'm still have a question
– user32763
2 hours ago
I got it , but i'm still have a question
– user32763
2 hours ago
Just wanna know what it is the relation between the reading ちょう and the reading とう ? Is there a rule or somthing like that or just because these readings are similar? This will help me a lot ..thanks
– user32763
2 hours ago
Just wanna know what it is the relation between the reading ちょう and the reading とう ? Is there a rule or somthing like that or just because these readings are similar? This will help me a lot ..thanks
– user32763
2 hours ago
@user32763 see edits.
– droooze
2 hours ago
@user32763 see edits.
– droooze
2 hours ago
Really thanks for you big help ❤
– user32763
2 hours ago
Really thanks for you big help ❤
– user32763
2 hours ago
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