茎
jīng HSK7

stem

Components

艹
艹 Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

grass

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

莖 jīng stem Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 巠 represents the sound.

Components

艹
艹 Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

巠
巠 Sound component
jīng warp (textile)

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartheangm-k-lˤ<r>eŋ stalk (n.)

說文解字

《說文》：“莖，枝柱也。从艸，巠聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)