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樹

shù

tree

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 尌 represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

尌 sound component

尌  Sound component

shù

  

standing (something) up

Evolution

樹 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

树 (樹) 

shù

tree; plant; set up, establish; CL:棵[kē]; to cultivate; to set up

Most common words with 樹
Freq.
Word
Meaning

树

tree

树立

to set up

树林

woods

树木

tree

圣诞树

Christmas tree

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-toʔ

dzyuX

shù

plant (v.); place upright

*m-toʔ-s

dzyuH

shù

tree


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 30.9947% of movies

995th most common character in movies

697th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

树

Unicode

U+6A39

Shuowen

“樹，生植之緫名。从木，尌聲。尌，籀文。”


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