froth

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

末 sound component

  Sound component

  

end

Evolution

沫 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
沫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
沫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

froth, foam, bubbles, suds; foam; suds

Most common words with 沫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

泡沫

foam

唾沫

spittle

foam

泡沫塑料

styrofoam

郭沫若

Guo Moruo (1892-1978), writer, communist party intellectual and cultural apparatchik

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤat

mat

foam, spittle


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.8123% of movies

2648th most common character in movies

2495th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+6CAB

Shuowen

“沫,水。出蜀西徼外,東南入江。从水,末聲。”


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