skin

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

Components
盧 sound,remnant component

  Sound Remnant component

  

rice vessel

⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

Evolution

膚 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
膚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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skin; superficial, shallow

Most common words with 膚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

皮肤

skin

肌肤

skin

skin

肤色

skin color

肤浅

skin-deep

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pra

pju

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。”


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