xìng
apricot
Depicts a fruit from a tree (木) that is delicious to taste (口).
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 杏
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
apricot | ||
almond | ||
maidenhair tree | ||
apricot | ||
Xinglin district of Xiamen city 廈門市|厦门市 (renamed Haicang district 海滄區|海沧区 in 2003) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.[g]ˤraŋʔ | haengX | xìng | apricot (tree) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.3867% of movies
2826th most common character in movies
2790th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+674F |
Shuowen | “杏，果也。从木，可省聲。” |
Sources
黃德寬《古文字譜系疏證》p.1734
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