handful

A handful of rice  in a bowl 

Components
勹 meaning component

  Meaning component

bāo

  

wrap

米 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

rice

Evolution

匊 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
匊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
匊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

handful; variant of [jū]

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

Sound component in 5 characters (0 verified)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+530A

Shuowen

“匊,在手曰匊。从勹、米。”


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