TSUMUGU · B1 (est.) · 字
桃
桃 ＝ 木 ＋ 兆
ㄊㄠˊ · táo
noun — peach
字源 FORM — what the parts do
兆聲zhào — gives the soundthe cracks read on a divining shell
ITzhào → táo — the reading shifted off the donor
Wood (木) with 兆 zhào, the sound. The fruit-tree it names — the peach. 兆 carries the sound, shifted from zhào to táo. 兆 also frames 逃 táo, to flee, and 跳 tiào, to jump.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
占卜的裂紋（兆）旁長出一樹（木）甜果——桃。
Beside the divining-cracks (兆), a tree (木) of sweet fruit — the peach.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)桃子、桃花— peach; peach blossom常用
→蜜桃、桃園— honey-peach; peach orchard
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
逃＝ 辶 ＋ táothe sibling — 逃 sets by 辶 (running); 桃 by (the tree)兆zhàothe sound donor, bare — an omen, the read cracks