Chinese Character Wiki

脯

pú, fǔ

dried meat

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 甫 represents the sound.

Components
⺼ meaning component

⺼  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

甫 sound component

甫  Sound component

fǔ

  

begin

Evolution

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

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
脯 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
脯 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

脯  

pú

dried meat; preserved fruits; chest; breast

脯  

fǔ

preserved fruit

Most common words with 脯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

胸脯

chest

脯

chest

果脯

candied fruit

脯氨酸

proline (Pro), an amino acid

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*p(r)aʔ

pjuX

fǔ

dried meat


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.1052% of movies

3323rd most common character in movies

3017th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+812F

Shuowen

“脯，乾肉也。从肉，甫聲。”


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