朴 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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piáo, pò, pǔ

surname Piao

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 卜 represents the sound. Simplified form of 樸.

Components

木 Meaning component

mù

tree

卜 Sound component

bo, bǔ

fortune telling

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

朴

Piáo

surname Piao; Korean surname (Park, Pak, or Bak); also pr. [Pú]

朴

pò

Celtis sinensis var. japonica

朴 (樸)

pǔ

simple, honest; plain; rough; plain and simple; Taiwan pr. [pú]

Most common words with 朴

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	朴	plain and simple
	朴素	unadorned
	朴实	plain
	质朴	simple
	古朴	simple and unadorned (of art, architecture etc)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.5720% of movies

2032nd most common character in movies

2092nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	6
Traditional	樸
Unicode	U+6734
Shuowen	“朴，木皮也。从木，卜聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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