xiàng

chestnut oak

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

象 sound component

  Sound component

xiàng

  

elephant

Evolution

橡 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xiàng

chestnut oak; rubber tree; rubber; oak; Quercus serrata

Most common words with 橡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

橡胶

rubber

橡皮

rubber

橡树

oak

oak

橡木

oaken

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-[d]aŋʔ

zjangX

xiàng

acorn


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.1829% of movies

2259th most common character in movies

2871st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+6A61


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