pù, bào
waterfall
Violent 暴 water 氵; 暴 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b]ˤawk | buwk | bào | waterfall? |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.7299% of movies
2987th most common character in movies
3195th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Unicode | U+7011 |
Shuowen | “瀑，疾雨也。一曰沫也。一曰瀑，資也。从水，暴聲。《詩》曰：‘終風且瀑。’” |
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