桑

桑 (radical 75, 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水水水木 (EEED), four-corner 1790₄, composition ⿱叒木)

• KangXi: page 526, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14772
• Dae Jaweon: page 914, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1209, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6851

桑

1. mulberry tree
2. A surname​.

Borrowed from Japanese さん (-san). Compare Min Nan 卡桑 (khà-sàng), 多桑 (tò-sàng), 歐巴桑／欧巴桑 (o͘-bá-sáng), and 歐吉桑／欧吉桑 (o͘-jí-sáng).

桑

1. (ACG, Internet slang) -san

• 醬／酱 (jiàng, “-chan”), 炭 (tàn, “-tan”), 君 (jūn, “-kun”), 樣／样 (yàng, “-sama”)

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. mulberry

• Go-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: くわ (kuwa, 桑, Jōyō)^{←くは (kufa, historical)}

/kupa/ → /kuɸa/ → /kuwa/

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.[1]

Ultimate derivation unclear. Definitely not related to Korean 뽕 (ppong, “mulberry tree”) or 오디 (odi, “mulberry fruit”), nor to Ainu テㇱマニ (tesmani, “mulberry tree”) or ツレㇷ゚ニ (turepni, “mulberry tree”).

Some theories suggest this might have originally been a compound. Possible derivations may include:

• A shift from 蚕葉 (kopa, “silkworm + leaf”)
• A shift from 胡葉 (kopa, “non-Chinese people to the west of China + leaf”), possibly referencing the origin of some mulberry species in central Asia
• A contraction of 食ふ葉 (kupu pa, “eat + leaf”), where kupu is the ancient reading of modern 食う (kuu)

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) く​わ [kúꜜwà] (Atamadaka – [1])[2][3]
  • IPA^(key): [kɯ̟ᵝɰᵝa̠]

桑 (hiragana くわ, katakana クワ, rōmaji kuwa, historical hiragana くは, historical katakana クハ)

1. mulberry

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as クワ.

This term can refer to the fruit or the tree. For greater specificity, the following may be used:

• 桑 (くわ)の木 (き) (kuwa no ki): mulberry tree
• 桑 (くわ)の実 (み) (kuwa no mi): mulberry fruit

桑 (eumhun 뽕나무 상 (ppongnamu sang))

1. mulberry tree

桑 (tang, dâu)

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