棗

棗 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木月木月 (DBDB) or 難木月木月 (XDBDB), four-corner 5090₂, composition ⿱朿朿)

• 𪦡, 𭫼, 𫓇, 𤒗, 𫼄, 𮐿

• 枣 (simplified Chinese)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 532, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14937
• Dae Jaweon: page 920, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1228, character 1
• Unihan data for U+68D7

Historical forms of the character 棗
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : Duplication of 朿 (“thorn”).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

棗

1. jujube; Chinese date
2. a surname

• (jujube):

• “棗”, 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–

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. jujube

• Go-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: なつめ (natsume, 棗)

• 酸棗(さんそう) (sansō)
• 大棗(たいそう) (taisō)

From Old Japanese. Originally a compound of 夏 (natsu, “summer”) +‎ 芽 (me, “bud, sprout”).[1]

• (Tokyo) なつめ [nàtsúmé] (Heiban – [0])[2]
• IPA^(key): [na̠t͡sɨᵝme̞]

棗(なつめ) or 棗(ナツメ) • (natsume) 

1. the jujube or Chinese date, Ziziphus jujuba

   Hypernym: 黒梅擬 (kuroumemodoki)

2. a dye made from dried jujube fruits
3. a small tea caddy used in the tea ceremony

• 五果(ごか), 五菓(ごか) (goka, “five fruits”): 桃(もも) (momo, “peach”), 李(すもも) (sumomo, “Japanese plum”), 杏(あんず) (anzu, “apricot”), 棗(なつめ) (natsume, “jujube”), 栗(くり) (kuri, “Japanese chestnut”)

棗(なつめ) • (Natsume) 

1. a female given name
2. a surname

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕo̞]
• Phonetic hangul: [조]

Wikisource 棗 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune–Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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棗: Hán Nôm readings: táo, táu, tảo

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