果馅饼
guǒ​xiàn​bǐng

tart

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)

馅 xiàn pastry filling Simplified

Simplified form of 餡. Phonosemantic compound. 饣 represents the meaning and 臽 represents the sound.

Components

饣
饣 Meaning component
shí eat

饣 is a component form of 食.

臽
臽 Sound component
xiàn a pit

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode

饼 bǐng, bing rice-cakes Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 饣 represents the meaning and 并 represents the sound. Simplified form of 餅.

Components

饣
饣 Meaning component
shí eat

饣 is a component form of 食.

并
并 Sound component
bìng combine

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

餡 xiàn pastry filling Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 飠 represents the meaning and 臽 represents the sound.

Components

飠
飠 Meaning component
eat

飠 is a component form of 食.

臽
臽 Sound component
xiàn a pit

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡroːms

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang

餅 bǐng, bing rice-cakes Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 飠 represents the meaning and 并 represents the sound.

Components

飠
飠 Meaning component
eat

飠 is a component form of 食.

并
并 Sound component
bìng combine

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartpjiengXpeŋʔ cake

說文解字

《說文》：“餅，麪餈也。从食，并聲。”

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)