Buddha

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

弗 sound component

  Sound component

  

not

Evolution

佛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
佛 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

Buddha; of Buddhism; merciful person; Buddhist image; the dead (Jap.)

 

Buddhism

(彿) 

seemingly

() 

(female) head ornament; variant of 彿|[fú]

Most common words with 佛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

seemingly

仿佛

to seem

哈佛

Harvard

佛罗里达

Florida

佛教

Buddhism

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b][u]t

bjut

great


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 22.7775% of movies

1096th most common character in movies

771st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+4F5B

Shuowen

“佛,見不審也。从人,弗聲。”


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