bǒ
lame
Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 皮 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pˤajʔ | paX | bǒ | walk lame |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3877th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+8DDB |
Shuowen | “跛，行不正也。从足，皮聲。一曰足排之。讀若彼。” |
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