jiá
pods of leguminous plants
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 夾 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 莢
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
pod (botany) | ||
pod (of legumes) | ||
seed pod | ||
Chinese honey locust (Gleditsia sinensis) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4119th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+83A2 |
Shuowen | “莢，艸實。从艸，夾聲。” |
Sources
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