檎

qín
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Chinese pearleaf crabapple, a small apple-like fruit tree

Examples

HSK 4
Línqín xiàng xiǎo píngguǒ, kěyǐ chī.
The crabapple looks like a small apple and can be eaten.
HSK 5
Yuànzi lǐ de línqín jiē mǎn le hóng guǒ.
The crabapple tree in the courtyard is loaded with small red fruit.

Tips

usage
檎 appears only in 林檎, a small apple-like crabapple. In Japanese the same two characters (read 'ringo') became the everyday word for 'apple'. It is a bound character in Chinese.

Components

radical
木 mù
wood; tree
木 is the tree radical, here left-side. It marks 檎 as a fruit tree, the crabapple in 林檎.
phonetic
禽 qín
bird; fowl
禽 supplies the exact sound qín. Its own meaning 'fowl' is unrelated here; it serves only as the phonetic beside the tree radical.

Stroke Order

檎 qín