hù
protect
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 蒦 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷˤak-s | huH | hù | protect |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 72.8336% of movies
399th most common character in movies
529th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8B77 |
Shuowen | “護,救視也。从言,蒦聲。” |
Sources
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