棠
táng

crab apple tree

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 尚 represents the sound.

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree
尚
尚 Sound component
shàng, shang esteem

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdang[N.]rˤaŋa kind of pear tree (Pyrus)
Zhengzhangdaːŋ
Unicodedhɑng

說文解字

牡曰棠，牝曰杜。从木尚聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)