Chinese Character Wiki

皤

pó

white

Components
白 meaning component

白  Meaning component

bái

  

white

white

番 sound component

番  Sound component

fān, pān

  

to take turns

Evolution

皤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
皤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
皤 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
皤 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

皤  

pó

white, grey; corpulent; white

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]ˤar

ba

pó

white, white-haired


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6051st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+76A4

Shuowen

“皤，老人白也。从白，番聲。《易》曰：‘賁如皤如。’，皤或从頁。”


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