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Again, during my kanji reviews, I encountered 斜. Remembering its kunyomi is
not difficult because it's the most common word associated with this kanji (at
least based on my reviews); its onyomi, however, always slips my mind.

I checked what kind of kanji 斜 is and it said that it's 形声. I assume that the
right component is the phonetic component, but I checked the kanjis with 斗 and
none of them have シャ as an onyomi.

Is this a case similar to 侮辱、後悔、海外 where the first kanji 侮 somehow changed its
sound in Chinese before being imported to Japanese?
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kanji onyomi
What is the phonetic component of 斜?
The _kanji_ has changed its sound long before importation into Japanese.

* * *

「[斜]{しゃ}」 ([Zhengzhang
OC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstructions_of_Old_Chinese#Zhengzhang_\(1981%E2%80%931995\)):
**/*lja/** , _to scoop/ladle_ ) is comprised of semantic [「斗」 ( _picture of a
ladle_](http://chinese-
linguipedia.org/search_source_inner.html?word=%E6%96%97) > _unit of measure
for liquids_ ) and phonetic 「[余]{よ}」 ( **/*la/** ). You can take the modern
meaning, _slanted_ , to be a [phonetic
loan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classification#Rebus_\(phonetic_loan\)_characters).

*The _unit of measure for liquids_ might also be seen with the _kanji_ 「升」. Indeed, [「升」 was originally 「斗」 with dots added](http://chinese-linguipedia.org/search_source_inner.html?word=%E5%8D%87), indicating that the ladle was full of liquid.

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Putting aside characters directly containing 「[余]{よ}」 (e.g. [途]{と}, [除]{じょ}),
the exact shape 「余」 has undergone quite a few sound shifts and graphical
corruptions in other _kanji_. You might find some more correspondences with
「[斜]{しゃ}」 in those changes; even though 「[余]{よ}」 itself appears to be rather
far phonologically from 「[斜]{しゃ}」, the characters containing variants of 「余」
may still be fairly close in sound to 「斜」.

Observe the [glyph evolution of
「余」](http://xiaoxue.iis.sinica.edu.tw/yanbian?kaiOrder=477), and then compare:

  * 「余」 is the bottom component of 「[茶]{ちゃ}」, which was originally written as 「荼」.
  * 「余」 was originally the [top component of 「[舍]{しゃ}」](http://xiaoxue.iis.sinica.edu.tw/yanbian?kaiOrder=1062) ( _Shinjitai_ : 「舎」).
  * 「余」 is sometimes corrupted into 「佘」 to produce a phonetic indicator 「[示]{し}」. In rare circumstances, you might come across a character containing 「佘」; their _on'yomi_ would be something like [「[賒]{しゃ}」](http://xiaoxue.iis.sinica.edu.tw/yanbian?kaiOrder=3687).
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