樹

Han character

樹 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 木土廿戈 (DGTI), four-corner 4490₀, composition ⿰木尌)

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 樹
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Shizhoupian script	Small seal script

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *djoʔ, *djos) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 尌 (OC *djos, “a hand planting a tree”).

Originally written 尌, see there for more.

Etymology

Area word (Schuessler, 2007): Mizo tuh (“to plant, to sow”), Khmer ដុះ (doh, “to grow, to bud”). Starostin compares it with Tibetan གདོས (gdos), གདོས་པ (gdos pa, “mast”) and Burmese ထူ (htu, “to erect (a post), to raise (a flag)”).

Related to 豎 (OC *djoʔ, “to erect; to make vertical”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

樹

1. to plant; to place upright; to cultivate

   See also: 豎

   • 一年之計，莫如樹穀；十年之計，莫如樹木；終身之計，莫如樹人。
     一樹一穫者，穀也；一樹十穫者，木也；一樹百穫者，人也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     一年之计，莫如树谷；十年之计，莫如树木；终身之计，莫如树人。
     一树一获者，谷也；一树十获者，木也；一树百获者，人也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Guanzi, 5^th century BCE to 220 CE

     Yīnián zhī jì, mò rú shùgǔ; shínián zhī jì, mò rú shùmù; zhōngshēn zhī jì, mò rú shùrén.
     Yīshù yīhuò zhě, gǔ yě; yīshù shíhuò zhě, mù yě; yīshù bǎihuò zhě, rén yě. [Pinyin]

     For one-year plans, nothing like planting grains; for ten-year plans, nothing like planting trees; for lifetime plans, nothing like planting people.
     Grains, once planted, yield only one harvest; trees, once planted, yield ten times the harvest; people, once planted, yield a hundred times the harvest.

2. to set up; to establish

   別樹一幟／别树一帜  ―  biéshùyīzhì  ―  to have a distinct style of one’s own

3. tree (Classifier: 棵 m w; 株 m; 樖 c; 叢／丛 mn; 頭／头 h; 蔸 md)

   楊樹／杨树  ―  yángshù  ―  poplar tree

   柳樹／柳树  ―  liǔshù  ―  willow tree

   • 在我的後園，可以看見牆外有兩株樹，一株是棗樹，還有一株也是棗樹。 [MSC, trad.]
     在我的后园，可以看见墙外有两株树，一株是枣树，还有一株也是枣树。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1924, Lu Xun, “Autumn Night”, in Wild Grass (English translation based on one by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang)

     Zài wǒ de hòuyuán, kěyǐ kànjiàn qiáng wài yǒu liǎng zhū shù, yī zhū shì zǎoshù, háiyǒu yī zhū yě shì zǎoshù. [Pinyin]

     Behind the wall of my backyard you can see two trees: one is a jujube tree, the other is also a jujube tree.

4. (literary) Classifier for trees.
5. (graph theory) tree

   紅黑樹／红黑树  ―  hónghēishù  ―  red-black tree

   決策樹／决策树  ―  juécèshù  ―  decision tree

6. a surname

Compounds

References

• “樹”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Kanji

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. tree; plant

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [sʰu]
• Phonetic hangul: [수]

Hanja

Wikisource 樹 (eumhun 나무 수 (namu su))

1. hanja form^? of 수 (“tree; plant”)

Han character

樹: Hán Nôm readings: thụ

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