Chinese Character Wiki

茇

bá

grass

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

grass

犮 sound component

犮  Sound component

bá, quǎn

  

pull up

Evolution

茇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
茇 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
茇 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
茇 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

茇  

bá

grass, thatch; betel

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-pˤ[a]t

bat

bá

halt in the open

*pˤ[a]t

pat

bá

halt in the open


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6688th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+8307

Shuowen

“茇，艸根也。从艸，犮聲。春艸根枯引之而發土為撥，故謂之茇。一曰艸之白華為茇。”


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