liǔ

old variant of 柳[liǔ]

Evolution

桺 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
桺 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
桺 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
桺 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

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liǔ

old variant of [liǔ]

Most common words with 桺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

willow

柳树

willow

柳州

Liuzhou prefecture-level city in Guangxi

柳暗花明

light at the end of the tunnel

杨柳

willow tree

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

11

Unicode

U+687A

Shuowen

“柳,小楊也。从木,丣聲。丣,古文酉。”


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