桑 — Chinese character
桑
sāng
mulberry tree; surname
- Pinyin
- sāng
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 叒 木
- Formation
- ideographic — A tree 木 bearing berries 叒
- Japanese
- 桑 as a kanji
Common words with 桑
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 沧桑 (滄桑) | cāng sāng | great changes; ups and downs |
| 桑拿 | sāng ná | (loanword) sauna |
| 桑巴 | sāng bā | samba (dance) (loanword) |
| 桑树 (桑樹) | sāng shù | mulberry tree |
| 沧海桑田 (滄海桑田) | cāng hǎi sāng tián | lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom); fig. the transformations of the world |
| 桑那 | sāng nà | sauna (loanword) |
| 桑梓 | sāng zǐ | (literary) one's native place |
| 农桑 (農桑) | nóng sāng | (literary) farming and sericulture; agricultural production |
| 桑椹 | sāng shèn | variant of 桑葚 (sāng shèn) |
| 桑葚 | sāng shèn | mulberry fruit (Fructus mori) |
| 桑蚕 (桑蠶) | sāng cán | silkworm |
| 欧巴桑 (歐巴桑) | ōu ba sāng | older female; woman of mature years (Japanese loanword) |
English words written with 桑
桑 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · I Ching 1 · Mencius 4 · Zhuangzi 20
- Analects 6.1
- Hexagram 12
- Mencius 1A.3
- Mencius 1A.7
- Mencius 2A.4
- Mencius 7A.22
- Zhuangzi Nourishment of the Soul
- Zhuangzi Man Among Men
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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