桑

(bound form) mulberry tree

10 strokes Dict coverage rank #1,133 U+6851

Ideographic compound (会意字)

A tree 木 bearing berries 叒

components: 叒木

mulberry tree · Heisig RSH #2751

crotch + 木 tree

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Characters built with 桑 as their sound component

These characters all use 桑 (sāng) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
亚利桑纳州	Yà lì sāng nà zhōu	state of Arizona
桑德尔福德	Sāng dé ěr fú dé	Sandefjord (city in Vestfold, Norway)
卡桑德拉	Kǎ sāng dé lā	Cassandra (given name); Cassandra (character in Greek mythology)
太阳照在桑干河上	Tài yáng Zhào zài Sāng gān Hé shàng	"The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River", socialist realist novel by Ding Ling 丁玲[Ding1 Lin…
基桑加尼	Jī sāng jiā ní	Kisangani (city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
桑日县	Sāng rì Xiàn	Sangri, a county in Shannan City 山南市[Shan1 nan2 Shi4], Tibet
桑德斯	Sāng dé sī	(surname) Sanders
桑托里尼岛	Sāng tuō lǐ ní Dǎo	Santorini (volcanic island in the Aegean sea)
桑德拉	Sāng dé lā	Sandra (name)
亚利桑那州	Yà lì sāng nà zhōu	Arizona
桑地诺民族解放阵线	Sāng dì nuò Mín zú Jiě fàng Zhèn xiàn	Sandinista National Liberation Front
桑内斯	Sāng nèi sī	Sandnes (city in Rogaland, Norway)
南乔治亚岛和南桑威奇	Nán Qiáo zhì yà dǎo hé Nán Sāng wēi qí	South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands
亚利桑那	Yà lì sāng nà	Arizona
萨桑王朝	Sà sāng Wáng cháo	Sassanid Empire of Persia (c. 2nd-7th century AD)
莫桑比克	Mò sāng bǐ kè	Mozambique
纳撒尼尔·霍桑	Nà sā ní ěr · Huò sāng	Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) American novelist and short story writer
桑塔纳	Sāng tǎ nà	Santana (name)
桑海	Sāng hǎi	Songhay people of Mali and the Sahara
坦桑尼亚	Tǎn sāng ní yà	Tanzania