shì HSK5

persimmon

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
tree
Sound component
shì market

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdzrijX[dz]rijʔ (? or *S.ɢrijʔ)persimmon

說文解字

赤實果。从木市聲。

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart