pǔ
universal
Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 並 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 普
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
common | ||
universal | ||
general | ||
ordinary person | ||
to generalize |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 43.1203% of movies
700th most common character in movies
630th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+666E |
Shuowen | “暜,日無色也。从日,从竝。” |
Sources
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