zhuāng
stake
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 庄 represents the sound. Simplified form of 樁.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 桩
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
stump | ||
stake | ||
tree stump | ||
pile driver (machinery) | ||
to drive piles into |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 7.9930% of movies
2176th most common character in movies
2491st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+6869 |
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