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.

• 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

• 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