noun #17,293

Meanings

  1. 1 coconut palm (bound form)

Examples

Hǎinán dǎo dàochù dōu shì yēshù.
Hainan Island is full of coconut palm trees.
Wǒ xǐhuan hē yēzhī.
I like drinking coconut juice.

Tips

usage
is a bound form and doesn't appear alone in modern Chinese. Common compounds: 椰子 (coconut), 椰树 (coconut palm), 椰奶 (coconut milk), 椰汁 (coconut juice).

Components

radical
tree; wood
Left-side tree radical, depicting a tree with roots and branches. Anchors as a tree species — the coconut palm. The radical drops it neatly into the botanical family with (poplar), (willow), (peach), (palm). Tropical-tree chars almost all take this radical.
phonetic
interjection particle (here phonetic)
Right side supplies the sound — exact yē. Originally an ear-and-city character used as a classical question particle. In it is pure phonetic, chosen to transliterate the foreign-sounding fruit name. Same yē reading anchors 耶稣 (Jesus) and 椰子 (coconut).

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