fǔ
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Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 無 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[pʰ](r)aʔ | phjuX | fǔ | lay the hand on |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 13.6793% of movies
1828th most common character in movies
1720th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+64AB |
Shuowen | “撫,安也。从手,無聲。一曰循也。,古文从辵、亡。” |
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