shān
various species of pine and fir
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 彡 represents the sound.
Evolution

Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 杉
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
Los Angeles, California | ||
China fir | ||
Japanese yew (taxus cuspidata) | ||
spruce | ||
metasequoia |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 16.4825% of movies
1262nd most common character in movies
2718th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+6749 |
Sources
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