bran

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
麥 meaning component

  Meaning component

mài

  

wheat

夫 sound component

  Sound component

  

man

Evolution

麩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
麩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
麩 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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bran

Most common words with 麩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

bran

麦麸

wheat bran

麸皮

bran (esp. of wheat)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5774th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+9EA9

Shuowen

“麩,小麥屑皮也。从麥,夫聲。麱,麩或从甫。”


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