桑 (sāng)
mulberry tree
How 桑 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 叒 — N/A
- Traditional
- 桑
- Simplified
- 桑 (unchanged)
Components
- 叒 N/A
- 木 tree
Common words using 桑
- 桑拿 sāngná
- sauna
- 滄桑 cāngsāng
- great changes; abbr. of 滄海桑田|沧海桑田[cang1 hai3 sang1 tian2]
- 亞利桑那州 yàlìsāngnàzhōu
- Arizona
- 坦桑尼亞 tǎnsāngníyà
- Tanzania
- 尼桑 nísāng
- Nissan, Japanese car make (derived from 日產)
- 扶桑 fúsāng
- Fusang, mythical island of ancient literature, often interpreted as Japan
- 指桑罵槐 zhǐsāngmàhuái
- lit. to point at the mulberry tree and curse the locust tree; fig. to scold sb indirectly; to make oblique accusations (idiom)
- 桑巴 sāngbā
- samba (dance)
- 歐巴桑 ōubasāng
- aunt (Japanese loanword, respectful appellation for any older female)
- 亞利桑那 yàlìsāngnà
- Arizona
- 哈桑 hāsāng
- Hassan (person name); Hassan District
- 收之桑榆 shōuzhīsāngyú
- to lose at sunrise but gain at sunset (idiom); to compensate later for one's earlier loss; what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
桑 in a sentence
桑葚是一種很健康的紫色水果。
Sāngshèn shì yì zhǒng hěn jiànkāng de zǐsè shuǐguǒ.
“Mulberry is a very healthy purple fruit.”
How common is 桑?
桑 is the 1,526th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 94.8% of all running text.
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