Chinese Character Wiki
葉

yè

leaf

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 枼 represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

枼 sound,meaning component

枼  Sound Meaning component

yè

  

leaf

Evolution

葉 Bronze script Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)

Bronze script

Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
葉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
葉 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

叶 (葉) 

yè

leaf, petal; page of book; period; leaf; page; lobe; (historical) period; classifier for small boats

叶 (葉) 

Yè

surname Ye

Most common words with 葉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

叶

leaf

茶叶

tea

叶子

foliage

树叶

tree leaves

朱丽叶

Juliet or Juliette (name)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*l[a]p

yep

yè

leaf


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 11.7412% of movies

1685th most common character in movies

920th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

叶

Unicode

U+8449

Shuowen

“葉，艸木之葉也。从艸，枼聲。”


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