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伯

bó, bà, bǎi

older brother, uncle

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 白 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

白 sound component

白  Sound component

bái

  

white

Evolution

伯 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
伯 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
伯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
伯 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
伯 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

伯  

bó

older brother; father's elder brother; senior male 'sire'; feudal rank 'count'; senior; paternal elder uncle; eldest of brothers; respectful form of address; Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wǔ​děng​jué​wèi]

伯  

bà

variant of 霸[bà]

伯  

bǎi

one hundred (old)

Most common words with 伯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

伯

senior

阿拉伯

Arabian

伯爵

earl

罗伯特

Robert (name)

韦伯

Webb, Webber or Weber (name)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pˤrak

paek

bó

father’s elder brother


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 22.7615% of movies

857th most common character in movies

821st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+4F2F

Shuowen

“伯，長也。从人，白聲。”


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