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鋪

pù, pū

spread out

Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 甫 represents the sound.

Components
釒 meaning component

釒  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

釒 is a component form of 金.

甫 sound component

甫  Sound component

fǔ

  

begin

Evolution

鋪 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
鋪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鋪 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
鋪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

铺 (鋪) 

pù

spread out, arrange; shop, store; place to sleep, bed; plank bed; place to sleep; shop; store; (old) relay station

铺 (鋪) 

pū

to spread; to display; to set up; (old) holder for door-knocker

Most common words with 鋪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

铺

shop

店铺

store

铺设

to install (wiring, cable)

铺盖

bedding

当铺

pawn shop

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pʰ(r)a

phju

fū

spread out

*pʰˤa

phu

pū

spread out


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 11.4688% of movies

1943rd most common character in movies

1613th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

铺

Unicode

U+92EA

Shuowen

“鋪，箸門鋪首也。从金，甫聲。”


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