This logogram is of ideographic origin and it was designed to evoke:

Dried 干 grain stalks 禾; 干 also provides the pronunciation

  • 秆 straw, hay gǎn
    • 禾 cereal, grain, rice; plant, stalk hé
      • 丿 slash piě
      • 木 tree; wood, lumber; wooden mù
    • 干 arid, dry; to oppose; to offend; to invade gān
      • 一 one; a, an; alone yī
      • 十 ten, tenth; complete; perfect shí

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