尌 - Dong Chinese dictionary

shù

standing (something) up

Depicts a hand (寸) cultivating a tree (木). The sound component 豆 was added later.

Components

木 Iconic component

mù

tree

Depicts a tree being planted.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 木 than it was in ancient scripts.

豆 Sound component

dòu

bean

尌 and 豆 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.尌 /*m-toʔ-s/
豆 /*[N.t]ˤo-s/, /*[d]ˤok-s/

寸 Iconic component

cùn

(hand), inch

Depicts a hand cultivating a tree.

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

尌

shù

standing (something) up; standing up; to stand (something) up

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

澍

Sound component in 4 characters (3 verified)

樹厨廚澍

Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)

厨

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*m-toʔ-s	dzyuH	shù	raise, stand up v.t.

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes	12
Unicode	U+5C0C
Shuowen	“尌，立也。从壴，从寸，持之也。讀若駐。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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