fú, fó
Buddha
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 弗 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b][u]t | bjut | fú | great |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 22.7775% of movies
1096th most common character in movies
771st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+4F5B |
Shuowen | “佛,見不審也。从人,弗聲。” |
Sources
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