fǔ
embroidered official or sacrificial robe
Phonosemantic compound. 黹 represents the meaning and 甫 represents the sound. Originally written as 黹, which depicts an embroidered pattern usually found on clothing.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
fǔ
embroidered official or sacrificial robe; (archaic) motif of axes with black handles and white heads, a symbol of authority embroidered on ceremonial robes
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6029th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Unicode | U+9EFC |
Shuowen | “黼，白與黑相次文。从黹，甫聲。” |
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