Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 且 represents the sound.
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
Modernhawthorn; (hawthorn); Chaenomeles japonica
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tsˤra | tsrae | zhā | kind of fruit tree |
Not found in HSK word list
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+67E4 |
Shuowen | “柤,木閑。从木,且聲。” |