楮

chǔ

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Definitions

chǔ Broussonetia kasinoki

Etymology

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound. Originally written as 耂, which is a pictograph of a tree with paper mulberry leaves.

Semantic: 木 Phonetic: 者

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Bronze Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

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Related Characters

Component: 木

Component: 者

Components

木者