橄 gǎn olive Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 敢 represents the sound. Components 木 木 Meaning component mù tree 敢 敢 Sound component gǎn to dare Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangklaːmʔ Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang