樁
zhuāng HSK7

stake

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree

wood

舂
舂 Sound component
chōng, chuāng, zhōng grind in mortar

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangʔr'oːŋ

說文解字

橛杙也。从木舂聲。

Sources

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

桩 zhuāng stake Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 庄 represents the sound. Simplified form of 樁.

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree
庄
庄 Sound component
zhuāng village, farmstead

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode