zhà, zuò
cut trees
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 乍 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 柞
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
oak | ||
Zhashui County in Shangluo 商洛[Shāngluò], Shaanxi | ||
Zhashui County in Shangluo 商洛[Shāngluò], Shaanxi |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]ˤrak | tsraek | zé | clear brush |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5247th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+67DE |
Shuowen | “柞，木也。从木，乍聲。” |
Sources
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