chǔ
mulberry
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound. Originally written as 耂, which is a pictograph of a tree with paper mulberry leaves.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5994th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+696E |
Shuowen | “楮，穀也。从木，者聲。柠，楮或从宁。” |
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