níng

lemon

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

宁 sound component

  Sound component

zhùníngnìng

  

peaceful, (storage container)

Evolution

柠 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
柠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
柠 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
柠 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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níng

lemon

Most common words with 柠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

柠檬

lemon

柠檬水

lemonade

柠檬汁

lemon juice

lemon

柠檬酸

citric acid

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.3980% of movies

2311th most common character in movies

4252nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+67E0

Shuowen

“楮,穀也。从木,者聲。柠,楮或从宁。”


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