yǐng​guǒ

caryopsis

yǐng rice tassel Simplified

Components

Sound component
bǐ, pìn spoon, (person)
Meaning component
grain stalk

rice

Unknown component
page

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

guǒ fruit

Pictograph of fruit growing on a tree.

Components

Iconic component
characterless component

Depicts fruit. Unrelated to the visually similar character (field).

Iconic component
tree

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Meaning (1 of 4 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkwaX[k]ˤo[r]ʔ fruit; result

說文解字

《說文》:“果,木實也。象果形在木之上。”

Sources

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

yǐng rice tassel Traditional

Components

Sound component
bǐ, pìn spoon, (person)
Meaning component
grain stalk

rice

Unknown component
(head), page

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartywengX[ɢ]ʷeŋʔpoint of an ear of grain
Zhengzhangɢʷeŋʔ
Unicodeiuɛ̌ng

說文解字

禾末也。从禾頃聲。《詩》曰:“禾穎穟穟。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica