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Mythic Mandarin

桑树 (sāng shù): meaning and stroke order

桑树 (sāng shù) means mulberry tree, with leaves used to feed silkworms.

桑树

Simplified
桑树
Traditional
桑樹
Pinyin
sāng shù

Stroke order of 桑树

桑

  • Sāng surname Sang
  • sāng (bound form) mulberry tree
  • sāng old variant of 桑[sang1]
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 桒

Stroke by stroke

树

  • shù tree; CL:棵[ke1]
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 樹

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 桑树

  1. sāng shù Traditional 桑樹
    • mulberry tree, with leaves used to feed silkworms

Radicals of the characters

桑
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 10 strokes · 叒 on top, 木 below
树
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 9 strokes · 木 on the left, 对 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

桑树 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 她发现，这些“果子”原来是一种小虫吐丝做成的茧，小虫吃的正是桑树的叶子。

    tā fāxiàn zhèxiē guǒzi yuánlái shì yì zhǒng xiǎo chóng tǔ sī zuò chéng de jiǎn xiǎo chóng chī de zhèngshì sāngshù de yèzi

    She discovered that the "fruits" were really cocoons spun from the silk of a small worm, and that the worms fed on mulberry leaves.

    From the story Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 桑树

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).