果冻
guǒ​dòng

jelly

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)

冻 dòng freeze Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 冫 represents the meaning and 东 represents the sound. Simplified form of 凍.

Components

冫
冫 Meaning component
bīng ice

冫 is a component form of 冰.

东
东 Sound component
dōng east

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

凍 dòng freeze Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 冫 represents the meaning and 東 represents the sound.

Components

冫
冫 Meaning component
bīng ice

冫 is a component form of 冰.

東
東 Sound component
dōng east

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttuwngHtˤoŋ-sfreeze
Zhengzhangtoːŋ
toːŋs
Unicodedùng
dùng

說文解字

仌也。从仌東聲。

Sources

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