Learn one Chinese Character a day - 株

As what we mentioned in our last lesson, 朱 was borrowed to mean red colour. Thus Chinese ancestors then added 木 to 朱 to create 株 to represent the original meaning of 朱.

Let us check its evolution history (image get from http://www.vividict.com/)

Learn one Chinese Character a day - 株 

We can see clearly that Bronze Script was exactly created by adding   to .

株 means trunk of a tree, 

and it was later used as Chinese Classifier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_classifier) for objects like tree. One usage literally is: one 株 tree.

Now let us enjoy a Chinese calligraphy with 株 inside:

种松千株听天籁 艺兰百畦得奇香