a pear

Evolution

棃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
棃 Clerical script Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
Definitions

 

a pear; variant of [lí], pear

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.r[ə][j]

lij

pear tree, pear


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+68C3

Shuowen

“棃,果名。从木,聲。,古文利。”


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