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負

fù

bear, carry

Depicts a person (人) carrying shells (貝) on their back.

Components
人 iconic component

人  Iconic component

rén

  

person

貝 iconic component

貝  Iconic component

bèi

  

sea shell

Evolution

負 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
負 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
負 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
負 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

负 (負) 

fù

load, burden; carry, bear; to bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on; to be defeated; negative (math. etc)

Most common words with 負
Freq.
Word
Meaning

负责

to be in charge of

负责人

person in charge

负

to bear

负担

burden

欺负

to bully

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]əʔ

bjuwX

fù

carry on the back


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 58.1291% of movies

746th most common character in movies

691st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Simplified

负

Unicode

U+8CA0

Shuowen

“負，恃也。从人守貝有所恃也。一曰受貸不償。”


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