fú
overgrown with grass
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pʰ[u]t | phjut | fú | shrubby |
*p[u]t | pjut | fú | remove dense vegetation |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6476th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+8300 |
Shuowen | “茀,道多草不可行。从艸,弗聲。” |
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