coarse

A bitter  plant  also provides the pronunciation

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

苦 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

  

bitter

Evolution

楛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
楛 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

coarse, crude; plant; (tree)

 

broken utensil

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+695B

Shuowen

“楛,木也。从木,苦聲。《詩》曰:‘榛苦濟濟。’”


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