in English

cháng
plant mentioned in Book of Songs, uncertainly identified as carambola or star fruit (Averrhoa carambola)

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 萇, the traditional character: 苌 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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