betel pepper

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approved by Peter Olson · Mar 2, 2026, 04:53 AM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Mar 2, 2026, 04:53 AM

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Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

plant

Sound component
qǔ, kǒu

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkoʔ
kos

說文解字

果也。从艸竘聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica