guǒ​pí

fruit beer

guǒ fruit

Pictograph of fruit growing on a tree.

Components

Iconic component
characterless component

Depicts fruit. Unrelated to the visually similar character (field).

Iconic component
tree

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Meaning (1 of 4 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkwaX[k]ˤo[r]ʔ fruit; result

說文解字

《說文》:“果,木實也。象果形在木之上。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica

beer

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth
Sound component
bēi humble, inferior
Change in sound

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode