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It's a wash. It broke some and restored others, often by following variant characters already in use, e.g. 闆, which has no pronunciation similarity to 品, became
by dwohnitmok 6y ago
It's a wash. It broke some and restored others, often by following variant characters already in use, e.g. 闆, which has no pronunciation similarity to 品, became 板 (following cues of e.g. 版).
Chinese hasn't had consistent phonetic components for a long long long time.
- edwinyzh 6y ago闆 doeshas no pronunciation similarity to 品，in ancient Chinese, you can find that with Cantonese which is close to the official languages in some ancient times.