yè
leaf
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 枼 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 葉
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
leaf | ||
tea | ||
foliage | ||
tree leaves | ||
Juliet or Juliette (name) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*l[a]p | yep | yè | leaf |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 11.7412% of movies
1685th most common character in movies
920th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8449 |
Shuowen | “葉，艸木之葉也。从艸，枼聲。” |
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