Chinese Character Wiki
桑

sāng

mulberry tree

Depicts the leaves of a mulberry tree (木). The leaves from a mulberry tree were the food silkworms would eat.

Components
◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts the leaves from the mulberry trees. Modern form looks like unrelated 叒.

木 iconic component

木  Iconic component

mù

  

tree

Evolution

桑 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
桑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

桑  

sāng

mulberry tree; surname

桑  

Sāng

surname Sang

桑 (桒) 

sāng

old variant of 桑[sāng]

Most common words with 桑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

桑

mulberry tree

沧桑

great changes

桑拿

sauna (loanword)

桑塔纳

Santana (name)

桑德拉

Sandra (name)

Component uses

Sound component in 5 characters (0 verified)

嗓 搡 顙 颡 磉

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[s]ˤaŋ

sang

sāng

mulberry tree


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 10.6199% of movies

1402nd most common character in movies

1528th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6851

Shuowen

“桑，蠶所食葉木。从叒、木。”


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