葚
shèn

mulberry fruit

Components

艹
艹 Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

plant

甚
甚 Sound component
shén, shèn extremely

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartzyimXsə-d[ə]mʔmulberry fruit
Zhengzhangɦljumʔ

說文解字

桑實也。从艸甚聲。

Sources

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