桑椹 | sāng shèn | mulberry | |
沧海桑田 | cāng hǎi sāng tián | lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom) / fig. the transformations of the world | |
桑树 | sāng shù | mulberry tree, with leaves used to feed silkworms | |
指桑骂槐 | zhǐ sāng mà huái | lit. to point at the mulberry tree and curse the locust tree / fig. to scold sb indirectly / to make oblique accusations (idiom) | |
桑葚 | sāng shèn | mulberry fruit (Fructus mori) | |
构 | gòu | to construct / to form / to make up / to compose / literary composition / paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) | |
柘 | zhè | a thorny tree / sugarcane / Cudrania triloba / three-bristle cudrania (Cudrania tricuspidata) / Chinese mulberry (Cudrania) | |
葚 | rèn | fruit of mulberry | |
葚 | shèn | fruit of mulberry / also pr. [ren4] | |
渤澥桑田 | bó xiè sāng tián | lit. blue seas where once was mulberry fields (idiom, from 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4], Record of the Grand Historian) / time brings great changes / life's vicissitudes | |
榖 | gǔ | paper mulberry tree | |
农桑 | nóng sāng | mulberry farming / to grow mulberry for sericulture | |
檊 | gàn | Chinese mulberry / sandalwood |