méi
plums
Originally written as 某, also variant form of 梅. Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 某 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 楳
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
plum | ||
Merlin | ||
plum blossom | ||
syphilis | ||
Lionel Messi (1987-), Argentine footballer |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.mˁə | mwoj | méi | plum tree |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 10.9723% of movies
1268th most common character in movies
1159th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+6973 |
Shuowen | “梅，枏也，可食。从木，每聲。楳，或从某。” |
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