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Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 木(“wood”) + 口(“mouth”) – perhaps referring to the tastiness of its fruit.
Shuowen considers it to be a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡraːŋʔ) : semantic 木(“wood”) + abbreviated phonetic 可(OC *kʰaːlʔ), but this is unlikely.
