tree

Origin & mnemonic

The tree radical originates as a pictograph depicting a tree trunk with branches and leaves, used since oracle-bone script. It represents the natural form of a tree with its main trunk and lateral branches.

Mnemonic: Remember the tree radical by picturing its four strokes as a vertical trunk with two branches sprouting from each side.

• 杷pá🔊

  used in 枇杷[pi2 pa5]

  8 strokes

• 杸shū🔊

  to kill

  8 strokes

• 杼zhù🔊

  shuttle of a loom

  8 strokes

• 杽chǒu🔊

  a kind of wooden handcuffs

  8 strokes

• 构gòu🔊

  to construct

  8 strokes

• 枇pí🔊

  used in 枇杷[pi2 pa5]

  8 strokes

• 枊àng🔊

  (literary) post for tethering a horse

  8 strokes

• 枋fāng🔊

  Santalum album

  8 strokes

• 枌fén🔊

  (tree)

  8 strokes

• 析xī🔊

  to separate

  8 strokes

• 枒yá🔊

  the coconut tree

  8 strokes

• 枓dǒu🔊

  (architecture) square wooden bearing block used to support a bracket in a dougong 斗拱[dou3 gong3] bracket system

  8 strokes

• 枘ruì🔊

  tenon

  8 strokes

• 枞cōng🔊

  fir tree

  8 strokes

• 枟yùn🔊

  wood streaks

  8 strokes

• 枢shū🔊

  (bound form) hinge; pivot (usu. fig.)

  8 strokes

• 枣zǎo🔊

  (bound form) jujube; Chinese date (Zizyphus jujuba)

  HSK 7

  8 strokes

• 枥lì🔊

  type of oak

  8 strokes

• 枧jiǎn🔊

  bamboo conduit

  8 strokes

• 枨chéng🔊

  door post

  8 strokes

• 枫fēng🔊

  maple (genus Acer)

  8 strokes

• 枭xiāo🔊

  owl

  8 strokes

• 查chá🔊

  to research

  HSK 2

  9 strokes

• 树shù🔊

  tree

  HSK 1

  9 strokes

• 某mǒu🔊

  some

  HSK 3

  9 strokes

• 架jià🔊

  to support

  HSK 3

  9 strokes

• 柑gān🔊

  large tangerine

  9 strokes

• 柯kē🔊

  (literary) branch; stem; stalk

  9 strokes

• 栋dòng🔊

  classifier for houses or buildings

  HSK 7

  9 strokes

• 柏bǎi🔊

  variant of 柏[bai3]

  9 strokes

• 柳liǔ🔊

  old variant of 柳[liu3]

  9 strokes

• 栏lán🔊

  fence

  HSK 7

  9 strokes

• 染rǎn🔊

  to dye

  HSK 5

  9 strokes

• 柄bǐng🔊

  handle or shaft (of an axe etc)

  9 strokes

• 柱zhù🔊

  pillar

  9 strokes

• 枯kū🔊

  (of plants) withered

  9 strokes

• 标biāo🔊

  mark

  HSK 7

  9 strokes

• 柔róu🔊

  soft

  9 strokes

• 柊zhōng🔊

  used in 柊葉|柊叶[zhong1 ye4]

  9 strokes

• 枰píng🔊

  chess-like game

  9 strokes

• 枱tái🔊

  old variant of 檯|台[tai2]

  9 strokes

• 枲xǐ🔊

  male nettle-hemp

  9 strokes

• 枳zhǐ🔊

  (orange)

  9 strokes

• 枵xiāo🔊

  (archaic) hollow of a tree

  9 strokes

• 枷jiā🔊

  cangue (wooden collar like stocks used to restrain and punish criminals in China)

  9 strokes

• 枸gǒu🔊

  used in 枸骨[gou3 gu3]

  9 strokes

• 枹fū🔊

  Quercus glandulifera

  9 strokes

• 枻yì🔊

  oar

  9 strokes