fù
married women
Depicts a woman (女) using a broom (帚). Women were traditionally responsible for household chores in ancient times. 帚 also represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mə.bəʔ (or *tsə.-? see Min) | bjuwX | fù | woman, wife |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 30.7865% of movies
1112th most common character in movies
932nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5A66 |
Shuowen | “婦，服也。从女持帚，灑掃也。” |
Sources
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