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.

• 柁tuó🔊

  main beam of roof

  9 strokes

• 柂yí🔊

  (literary) (botany) (a species of linden whose timber was used to make coffins in ancient times)

  9 strokes

• 柃líng🔊

  Eurya japonica

  9 strokes

• 柅nǐ🔊

  (tree)

  9 strokes

• 柈pán🔊

  plate

  9 strokes

• 柎fū🔊

  calyx of flower

  9 strokes

• 柒qī🔊

  seven (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

  9 strokes

• 柘zhè🔊

  a thorny tree

  9 strokes

• 柙xiá🔊

  cage

  9 strokes

• 柚yòu🔊

  pomelo (Citrus maxima or C. grandis)

  9 strokes

• 柝tuò🔊

  watchman's rattle

  9 strokes

• 柞zhà🔊

  used in 柞水[Zha4 shui3] (the name of a place in Shaanxi)

  9 strokes

• 柠níng🔊

  used in 檸檬|柠檬[ning2 meng2]

  9 strokes

• 柢dǐ🔊

  foundation

  9 strokes

• 柣zhí🔊

  threshold

  9 strokes

• 柤zhā🔊

  (hawthorn)

  9 strokes

• 柦dàn🔊

  a kind of wooden desk without legs

  9 strokes

• 柩jiù🔊

  bier

  9 strokes

• 柬jiǎn🔊

  card

  9 strokes

• 柮duò🔊

  wood scraps

  9 strokes

• 柰nài🔊

  Chinese pearleaf crabapple (Malus asiatica)

  9 strokes

• 柲bì🔊

  weapon handle of bamboo strips

  9 strokes

• 栅zhà🔊

  fence

  9 strokes

• 柶sì🔊

  spoon

  9 strokes

• 柷zhù🔊

  percussion instrument, a tapering wooden box struck on the inside with a wooden stick

  9 strokes

• 柸pēi🔊

  to hate

  9 strokes

• 柽chēng🔊

  tamarisk

  9 strokes

• 柿shì🔊

  old variant of 柿[shi4]

  9 strokes

• 栀zhī🔊

  gardenia

  9 strokes

• 栃lì🔊

  archaic variant of 櫪|枥, oak

  9 strokes

• 栈zhàn🔊

  a wooden or bamboo pen for sheep or cattle

  9 strokes

• 栉zhì🔊

  comb

  9 strokes

• 栊lóng🔊

  (literary) window

  9 strokes

• 栌lú🔊

  capital (of column)

  9 strokes

• 栎lì🔊

  oak

  9 strokes

• 栐yǒng🔊

  (archaic) a kind of tree whose timber was used to make ceremonial tablets 笏[hu4]

  9 strokes

• 格gé🔊

  square; lattice; grid; frame

  HSK 7

  10 strokes

• 桥qiáo🔊

  bridge

  HSK 3

  10 strokes

• 案àn🔊

  (legal) case

  10 strokes

• 样yàng🔊

  manner

  HSK 6

  10 strokes

• 根gēn🔊

  root

  HSK 4

  10 strokes

• 桑sāng🔊

  (bound form) mulberry tree

  10 strokes

• 核hé🔊

  pit

  HSK 7

  10 strokes

• 桌zhuō🔊

  old variant of 桌[zhuo1]

  10 strokes

• 档dàng🔊

  (bound form) shelves (for files); pigeonholes

  HSK 6

  10 strokes

• 柴chái🔊

  firewood

  10 strokes

• 栽zāi🔊

  to plant; to grow

  HSK 7

  10 strokes

• 框kuàng🔊

  frame (e.g. door frame)

  HSK 7

  10 strokes