fū
skin
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 盧 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pra | pju | fū | skin |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 18.4687% of movies
1539th most common character in movies
1790th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+819A |
Shuowen | “臚,皮也。从肉,盧聲。膚,籀文臚。” |
Sources
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