guì
cassia or cinnamon
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 圭 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 桂
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
surname Gui | ||
Chinese cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia) | ||
laurel | ||
Guilin prefecture-level city in Guangxi | ||
osmanthus flowers |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.2585% of movies
2775th most common character in movies
1930th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+6842 |
Shuowen | “桂，江南木，百藥之長。从木，圭聲。” |
Sources
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