chestnut-leaved oak

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

tree

樂 sound component

  Sound component

yuè

  

happy, music

Evolution

櫟 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
櫟 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
櫟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
櫟 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
櫟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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chestnut-leaved oak; oak; Quercus serrata

Most common words with 櫟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

oak

栎树

oak tree

栓皮栎

Chinese cork oak (Quercus variabilis)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]ˤewk

lek

oak


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4721st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+6ADF

Shuowen

“櫟,木也。从木,樂聲。”


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