榄角
lǎn​jiǎo

black olive

榄 lǎn olive Simplified

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree

tree

览
览 Sound component
lǎn look at

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

角 jiǎo, jué horn

Pictograph of a horn.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Component uses

Meaning (4 of 12 verified)

触觯觥觞觳觚觫觸觱觖觜觴

Sound (2 of 4 verified)

确粟斛桷

Iconic (3)

解衡𢍱

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkaewkC.[k]ˤrok horn, corner

說文解字

《說文》：“角，獸角也。象形，角與刀魚相似。”

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)

欖 olive Traditional

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

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree
覽
覽 Sound component
lǎn look at

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡ·raːmʔ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang