棠 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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táng

crab apple tree

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 尚 represents the sound.

Components

木 Meaning component

mù

tree

尚 Sound component

shàng

esteem

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

táng

crab apple tree; wild plums; cherry-apple

Most common words with 棠

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	左宗棠	Zuo Zongtang (1812-1885), Chinese administrator and military leader
	棠	cherry-apple
	秋海棠	begonia
	海棠花	Chinese flowering crab-apple (Malus spectabilis)
	棠梨	birch-leaved pear (Pyrus betulaefolia)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[N.]rˤaŋ	dang	táng	a kind of pear tree (Pyrus)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2489th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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