liǔ
willow tree
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 卯 represents the sound. Simplified form of 栁.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 柳
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
willow | ||
willow | ||
Liuzhou prefecture-level city in Guangxi | ||
light at the end of the tunnel | ||
willow tree |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*([m]ə.)ruʔ | ljuwX | liǔ | willow |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.9862% of movies
2680th most common character in movies
1557th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+67F3 |
Shuowen | “柳，小楊也。从木，丣聲。丣，古文酉。” |
Sources
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