pú
crawl
Phonosemantic compound. 勹 represents the meaning and 甫 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Bronze script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b]ˤa | bu | pú | crawl |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4202nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+530D |
Shuowen | “匍，手行也。从勹，甫聲。” |
Sources
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