bó
silks
Phonosemantic compound. 巾 represents the meaning and 白 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 帛
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
silk | ||
fig. to turn hostility into friendship | ||
cloth and silk | ||
wealth | ||
painting on silk |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b]ˤrak | baek | bó | silk |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3682nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5E1B |
Shuowen | “帛，繒也。从巾，白聲。” |
Sources
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