noun #57,788

Meanings

  1. 1 (archaic) the paper mulberry tree, whose bark is used to make paper

Examples

Gǔ shū shuō gǔ shù de shùpí kěyǐ zào zhǐ.
Old records say the bark of the gǔ tree can be made into mulberry-bark paper.

Tips

history
Not used in modern Chinese, which calls this tree 构树 or . Note it is not the same as the rice-grain character (grain); has the tree radical and means the paper mulberry.
mistakes
Do not confuse (tree radical, paper mulberry) with the very similar (grain radical, cereal), the traditional form of .

Components

radical
tree; wood
The tree radical at the bottom fixes the meaning as a kind of tree — here the bark-bearing paper mulberry.
phonetic
qiào
shell; here phonetic
The top is the shell element minus its base, serving as the phonetic; its reading drifted toward gǔ, the same family as .

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