Origin

The character 藤 combines a grass radical at the top with the component 滕 below it. The grass radical indicates this is a plant, while 滕 originally represented something that climbs or spreads. Together they picture a climbing plant — specifically the wisteria vine, which grows upward and spreads across structures. The formation makes visual sense: you see the plant marker, then the idea of growth and movement, which captures how wisteria actually behaves in nature.

AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).