bù
cotton cloth
Phonosemantic compound. 巾 represents the meaning and 父 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pˤa-s | puH | bù | cloth |
*pˤa-s | puH | bù | cloth |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 63.5752% of movies
383rd most common character in movies
380th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+5E03 |
Shuowen | “布,枲織也。从巾,父聲。” |
Sources
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