fù
to tie
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 尃 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 縛
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to bind | ||
to bind | ||
hoist by his own petard | ||
fig. weak | ||
to tie up |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*bak | bjak | fù | bind (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.8283% of movies
2642nd most common character in movies
2577th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7E1B |
Shuowen | “縛,束也。从糸,尃聲。” |
Sources
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