Trace Panda
■ radical

leaf

How it’s built

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 十 represents the sound. In simplified Chinese 叶 is also used to mean "leaf; page", while in traditional Chinese this meaning is written with a separate character 葉.

meaning

mouth

sound

ten The pronunciation of 叶 was similar to 十 in old Chinese, but they no longer sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes.

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