táo
bound morpheme

Meanings

  1. 1 used in 葡萄 (grape)

Examples

Wǒ xǐhuan chī pútao.
I like to eat grapes.
Pútaojiǔ hěn hǎo hē.
Wine tastes great.

Tips

usage
Only used in 葡萄 (grape) and 葡萄酒 (wine). Never appears alone.

Components

radical
cǎo
grass; plant (top radical)
Top grass radical anchors in the plant family — appropriate since the word only appears in 葡萄 grape, the climbing vine itself a sprawling plant. Both and carry to mark them as botanical, a tidy paired-character word where each half wears the same plant hat.
phonetic
táo
pottery kiln (here phonetic)
Bottom — a person bent over a pottery wheel — is the older simple form of pottery. Here it serves purely as the phonetic frame supplying táo. only ever appears in 葡萄 grape; both syllables are bound morphemes of a foreign loanword (Old Persian budāwa), each given a botanical hat plus phonetic body.

Stroke Order

táo