fù
abundant
Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and 畐 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Warring States (475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pək-s | pjuwH | fù | rich; wealth |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 31.9718% of movies
1089th most common character in movies
733rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+5BCC |
Shuowen | “富,備也。一曰厚也。从宀,畐聲。” |
Sources
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