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apricot

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Depicts a fruit from a tree () that is delicious to taste ().

Components

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Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarthaengXC.[g]ˤraŋʔ apricot (tree)

說文解字

《說文》:“杏,果也。从木,可省聲。”

Sources

Character origin
黃德寬《古文字譜系疏證》p.1734
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica