Talk:杉

Etymology

Without any proof or reference, just by looking at a cedar tree and its leaves, I claim that this is an ideographic character. The radicals are tree 木 and hair 彡. Hairy tree. Tree with hair. Have a look at some pictures of cedar leaves . Who would disagree? However, how much proof is needed in order to put in an etymology section on this page? I mean - the character is not a phonogram, is it?

--188.97.224.27 18:40, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

I think it is a phonogram. I have edited the page per my opinion. But some characters can be phonograms and ideograms at the same time. Hope you will see this one day and we can get to discuss it.--Geographyinitiative (talk) 13:37, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

A Chinese Dictionary in the Cantonese Dialect (1877)

https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mh8TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q&f=false 杉

RcAlex36 (talk) 15:10, 27 February 2023 (UTC)