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| − | <WL>凝 [níng] freeze, congeal/coagulate; 混凝土 concrete; 凝视 stare; 凝固 solidify | + | <WL>凝 [níng] freeze, congeal/coagulate; 混凝土 concrete; 凝视 stare; 凝固 solidify@@; (HDZ:) … |
The Shuōwén Seal form of 凝() níng ‘freeze’ combines 冫(仌) bīng ‘ice’ (phonosemantic), and 疑() yí/níng ‘uncertain/slippery/congeal’ (phonosemantic); formerly wr. 冰(𣲝) níng ‘freeze’, vs. 仌() bīng ‘ice’. | The Shuōwén Seal form of 凝() níng ‘freeze’ combines 冫(仌) bīng ‘ice’ (phonosemantic), and 疑() yí/níng ‘uncertain/slippery/congeal’ (phonosemantic); formerly wr. 冰(𣲝) níng ‘freeze’, vs. 仌() bīng ‘ice’. | ||
Note: Today distinguished as 凝 níng ‘freeze’, vs. 冰 bīng ‘ice’, but the historical development is complex; Shuōwén 凝 níng ‘freeze’ is a variant of 冰(𣲝) níng ‘freeze’; the old graph 仌() bīng ‘ice’ (today as a left-side comp. wr. 冫) is said to depict ice crystals; the augmented form 冰 (with 水 water on the right) was invented to specify 冰(𣲝) níng ‘freeze’, but later that form replaced 仌() bīng ‘ice’, and the form 凝 níng ‘freeze’ was invented for that reading; perhaps bīng ‘ice’ (← OC pʲəŋ) and níng ‘freeze’ (← OC ŋʲəŋ) are cognates, once differentiated by (causal) prefix morphology. | Note: Today distinguished as 凝 níng ‘freeze’, vs. 冰 bīng ‘ice’, but the historical development is complex; Shuōwén 凝 níng ‘freeze’ is a variant of 冰(𣲝) níng ‘freeze’; the old graph 仌() bīng ‘ice’ (today as a left-side comp. wr. 冫) is said to depict ice crystals; the augmented form 冰 (with 水 water on the right) was invented to specify 冰(𣲝) níng ‘freeze’, but later that form replaced 仌() bīng ‘ice’, and the form 凝 níng ‘freeze’ was invented for that reading; perhaps bīng ‘ice’ (← OC pʲəŋ) and níng ‘freeze’ (← OC ŋʲəŋ) are cognates, once differentiated by (causal) prefix morphology. | ||
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