fǔ
cheek bone
Phonosemantic compound. 車 represents the meaning and 甫 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 輔
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to assist | ||
to mentor | ||
to assist | ||
coach (teacher or trainer) | ||
Kiev, capital of Ukraine |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b](r)aʔ | bjuX | fǔ | help |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.7985% of movies
2198th most common character in movies
2033rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8F14 |
Shuowen | “輔，人頰車也。从車，甫聲。” |
Sources
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