fú
fall prostrate
Phonosemantic compound. 勹 represents the meaning and 畐 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b]ək | bjuwk | fú | crawl (bu.bjuwk) |
*[b]ˤək (< *[b]ˤuk ?) | bok | fú | crawl |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4278th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+5310 |
Shuowen | “匐,伏地也。从勹,畐聲。” |
Sources
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