fǎng
imitate
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 方 represents the sound. Simplified form of 彷.
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 14.9768% of movies
1695th most common character in movies
1259th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+4EFF |
Shuowen | “仿,相似也。从人,方聲。,籀文仿从丙。” |
Sources
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