Chinese Character Wiki
果

guǒ

fruit

Pictograph of fruit growing on a tree.

Components
◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts fruit. Unrelated to the visually similar character 田 (field).

木 iconic component

木  Iconic component

mù

  

tree

Evolution

果 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
果 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

果  

guǒ

fruit; result; resolute; indeed; if really

果 (菓) 

guǒ

variant of 果[guǒ]

Most common words with 果
Freq.
Word
Meaning

如果

if

结果

outcome

效果

result

成果

result

果然

really

Component uses

Meaning component in 4 characters (1 verified)

菓 顆 颗 稞

Sound component in 16 characters (6 verified)

菓 課 课 棵 踝 夥 裸 裹 猓 窠 髁 稞 倮 锞 蜾 骒

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ˤo[r]ʔ

kwaX

guǒ

fruit; result


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.5675% of movies

86th most common character in movies

165th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+679C

Shuowen

“果，木實也。象果形在木之上。”


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