sāng
mulberry tree
Depicts the leaves of a mulberry tree (木). The leaves from a mulberry tree were the food silkworms would eat.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 桑
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
mulberry tree | ||
great changes | ||
sauna (loanword) | ||
Santana (name) | ||
Sandra (name) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[s]ˤaŋ | sang | sāng | mulberry tree |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 10.6199% of movies
1402nd most common character in movies
1528th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+6851 |
Shuowen | “桑,蠶所食葉木。从叒、木。” |
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