Chinese
蘋果
píngguǒ
apple (fruit) (Classifier: 個／个; 隻／只; 顆／颗)
- TOCFL 3
- 頻果
- 苹果
- 频果
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Origin
From abbreviation of the Sanskrit transcription 頻婆 + native Chinese 果 (“fruit”).
A 艹 (“grass”) radical was added to 頻 to make its meaning more apparent. See 頻婆 for more.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lineage
- characterChinese蘋 “water clover; clover fern (family Marsileaceae)”
- characterChinese果 “fruit”
Sources
- HSK / TOCFL word lists — Facts (levels)
- 教育部《國語辭典簡編本》 (Taiwan MOE) — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW
- Written form — n/a
- Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wiktionary: 蘋果