fringe flower (Loropetalum chinense)

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

㡭 sound component

  Sound component

  

continue

Evolution

檵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
檵 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

fringe flower (Loropetalum chinense), evergreen shrub

 

variant of [qǐ], wolfberry shrub (Lycium chinense)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+6AB5

Shuowen

“檵,枸杞也。从木,繼省聲。一曰監木也。”


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