fú
piece
A roll 畐 of cloth 巾; 畐 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 幅
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
width | ||
width | ||
amount of increase | ||
growth rate | ||
by a wide margin |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*p<r>ək | pik | fú | strap around the leg |
*pək | pjuwk | fú | strap around the leg |
*pək | pjuwk | fú | width (of cloth); wide |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 10.6519% of movies
1803rd most common character in movies
1444th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+5E45 |
Shuowen | “幅，布帛廣也。从巾，畐聲。” |
Sources
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