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Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 咅 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 菩
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
Bodhisattva (Buddhism) | ||
Bodhisattva | ||
bodhi (Sanskrit) | ||
bo fig tree | ||
Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.5446% of movies
3268th most common character in movies
2209th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+83E9 |
Shuowen | “菩,艸也。从艸,咅聲。” |
Sources
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