catalpa ovata

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

辛 sound component

  Sound component

xīn

  

laborious

Evolution

梓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
梓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
梓 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
梓 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

catalpa ovata; Catalpa kaempferi; printing blocks

Most common words with 梓
Freq.
Word
Meaning

Catalpa kaempferi

桐梓

Taongzi county in Zun'yi 遵義|遵义[Zūn​yì], Guizhou

桐梓县

Taongzi county in Zun'yi 遵義|遵义[Zūn​yì], Guizhou

桑梓

homeland

梓潼

Zitong county in Mianyang 綿陽|绵阳[Mián​yáng], north Sichuan

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]əʔ

tsiX

Catalpa


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3750th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+6893

Shuowen

“梓,楸也。从木,宰省聲。榟,或不省。”


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