懂中文 Dong Chinese

棠

táng

crab apple tree

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 尚 represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

尚 sound component

尚  Sound component

shàng

  

esteem

Evolution

棠 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
棠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

棠  

táng

crab apple tree; wild plums; cherry-apple

Most common words with 棠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

左宗棠

Zuo Zongtang (1812-1885), Chinese administrator and military leader

棠

cherry-apple

秋海棠

begonia

海棠花

Chinese flowering crab-apple (Malus spectabilis)

棠梨

birch-leaved pear (Pyrus betulaefolia)