bǔ, bū, bù
chew food
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 甫 represents the sound. Simplified form of 餔.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b]ˤa-s | buH | bǔ | food held in the mouth |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.2174% of movies
3330th most common character in movies
2810th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+54FA |
Shuowen | “哺，哺咀也。从口，甫聲。” |
Sources
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