荚果
jiá​guǒ

legume

荚 jiá pods of leguminous plants Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 夹 represents the sound. Simplified form of 莢.

Components

艹
艹 Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

夹
夹 Sound component
jiā, jiá be wedged or inserted between, pressed from two sides

說文解字

艸實。从艸夾聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

果 guǒ fruit

Pictograph of fruit growing on a tree.

Components

◎
◎ Iconic component
characterless component

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

木
木 Iconic component
mù 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

Sound (6 of 16 verified)

课棵裸裹踝猓窠夥髁稞倮锞蜾課骒菓

Meaning (1 of 4 verified)

颗稞顆菓

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
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

莢 pods of leguminous plants Traditional

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

Components

艹
艹 Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

夾
夾 Sound component
jiā, jiá be wedged or inserted between, pressed from two sides

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkeːb

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica