jiǎ

small evergreen shrub

Evolution

檟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

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jiǎ

small evergreen shrub; Catalpa, a genus of mostly deciduous trees; old term for Camellia sinensis, the tea plant ; also called Thea sinensis; small evergreen shrub (Mallotus japonicus)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+6A9F

Shuowen

“檟,楸也。从木,賈聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘樹六檟於蒲圃。’”


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