櫱 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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niè

stump

Components

辥 Sound component

xuē

variety of marsh grass

木 Meaning component

mù

tree

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

niè

stump, sprout; new shoot growing from cut branch or stump

Most common words with 櫱

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	分蘖	tiller (stem at the base of grass plants)
	蘖	new shoot growing from cut branch or stump
	蘖枝	branch stem

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*ŋ(r)at	ngjet	niè	(shoots from) tree stump

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5666th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	20
Simplified	蘖
Unicode	U+6AF1
Shuowen	“，伐木餘也，从木獻聲。《商書》曰：‘若顛木之有甹。’櫱，或从木辥聲。，古文，从木無頭。，亦古文。”

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