Talk:奠

Glyph origin

The explanation for this character was previously:

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 酋 (“wine”) + 丌 (“table”).

I changed it to this:

Pictogram (象形); derived from the pictogram of a wine cup placed on a table. The upper component representing a wine cup evolved from 酉 in Oracle Bone Script into 酋 in Small Seal Script, with the two dots (丷) above the 酉 component representing overflowing wine. The lower component representing a table evolved from 一 (a simple line) in Oracle Bone script into 丌 (a table with two legs) in Small Seal script. The 丌 component later evolved into 大 in the process of the alteration of Clerical script forms known as 隸變.

I'm basing the change primarily on my reading of the 《汉字源流字典》 第1489页. I can't really understand 《古文字诂林》 第3072页. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 10:10, 21 February 2018 (UTC)