硕果
shuò guǒ · HSK 7
major achievement
🍎🏆 硕 large + 果 fruit = a big ripe fruit, the harvest of hard work: a major achievement
硕 means large or substantial and 果 means fruit. Together the big fruit is the payoff of long effort, so 硕果 names a great work or triumphant success, the harvest you reap after sustained labor.
果 — fruit shape 田-like top + tree 木
果 is a pictograph: early forms show a tree (木) with round fruit hanging on its branches, later stylized into the 田-like top. Its original meaning was 'fruit', which extended to 'result, outcome' — the fruit of an action — and to 'resolute, decisive'.