yáng
willow
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 昜 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 楊
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
poplar | ||
poplar | ||
white poplar (Populus bonatii) | ||
red bayberry | ||
poplar tree |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*laŋ | yang | yáng | poplar |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.1784% of movies
2615th most common character in movies
1062nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+694A |
Shuowen | “楊，木也。从木，昜聲。” |
Sources
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