Chinese parasol tree

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

吾 sound component

  Sound component

  

I, me

Evolution

梧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

Chinese parasol tree, Sterculia platanifolia; Sterculia platanifolia

Most common words with 梧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

魁梧

tall and sturdy

Sterculia platanifolia

梧桐

Chinese parasol tree

梧州

Wuzhou prefecture level city in Guangxi

梧州市

Wuzhou prefecture level city in Guangxi

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3356th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+68A7

Shuowen

“梧,梧桐木。从木,吾聲。一名櫬。”


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