果物
くだもの · kudamono · JLPT N5 · noun
fruit
🍎🍇 果物 = fruit + thing; kudamono was once ku-da-mono, tree's thing
果 means fruit and 物 (mono) means thing. The reading is old Japanese: ku is an ancient form of ki (tree), da is an archaic possessive like no, and mono is thing. So kudamono is literally the thing of the tree.
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'.