shù
tree
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 尌 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-toʔ | dzyuX | shù | plant (v.); place upright |
*m-toʔ-s | dzyuH | shù | tree |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 30.9947% of movies
995th most common character in movies
697th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6A39 |
Shuowen | “樹,生植之緫名。从木,尌聲。尌,籀文。” |
Sources
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