bù
terror
Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 布 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 怖
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
terrible | ||
terrorism | ||
terrorist organization | ||
terror | ||
horror movie |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 23.9468% of movies
1227th most common character in movies
1776th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+6016 |
Shuowen | “悑，惶也。从心，甫聲。怖，或从布聲。” |
Sources
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