qiū

mallotus japonicus

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

秋 sound component

  Sound component

qiū

  

autumn

Evolution

楸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
楸 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

qiū

mallotus japonicus, deciduous tre; Catalpa; Mallotus japonicus

Most common words with 楸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

Catalpa

鹅掌楸

Chinese tulip tree

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5691st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+6978

Shuowen

“楸,梓也。从木,秋聲。”


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