fù
father
Pictograph of a hand holding something. The exact nature of the object is unclear. Variously explained as a rod or a hatchet.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*p(r)aʔ | pjuX | fǔ | (respectful suffix in male names) |
*[N-p](r)aʔ | bjuX | fù | father |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 69.1655% of movies
330th most common character in movies
589th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Unicode | U+7236 |
Shuowen | “父,矩也,家長率教者。从又舉杖。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.200-201
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