chì

to scold

Original meaning: 

develop new land

Archaic variant of . Phonosemantic compond: 广 represents the meaning and represents the sound. Originally a variant form of , based on the original meaning "to develop new land". The component was confused with the visually similar .

Components
广 meaning component

广  Meaning component

yǎnguǎng

  

roof

屰 component

  component

  

disobedient

Corruption of the original sound component .

Evolution

㡿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
㡿 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
㡿 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

chì

(standard form of ) to accuse; to blame, to expel; to drive off; to reject

Sources

季旭昇《說文新證》p.724-725