0076 果

果

Here’s an easy one: This character means ‘fruit,’ ‘accomplish,’ or ‘result.’ It’s pronounced KA or hatasu in Japanese, guǒ in Chinese.

There’s the character

田,

meaning ‘field,’ and

木,

meaning ‘tree.’ If you have a tree in a field and all goes well, you should get a result—fruit.

Here are some archaic versions:

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I don’t know why they seem to be upside-down. Shouldn’t the tree be on the field, rather than the field on the tree?