柿
shì HSK5

persimmon

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Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 市 represents the sound.

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree
市
市 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