bó
seize
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 尃 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 搏
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to fight | ||
pulse (both medical and figurative) | ||
to struggle | ||
to wrestle | ||
to wrestle |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pˤak | pak | bó | strike |
*p(r)ak-s | pjuH | bó | strike |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 9.9151% of movies
1975th most common character in movies
2372nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+640F |
Shuowen | “搏，索持也。一曰至也。从手，尃聲。” |
Sources
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