梅
楳méi
#1,157 most
frequent character
variant of 梅[mei2]
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
梅 joins 木, a tree, with 每 měi, which supplies the sound. It first named a particular kind of tree. That sense moved to the plum tree, and then to the plum fruit itself.
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