fǒu, pǐ
not
Phonosemantic compound. 不 represents the meaning and 口 represents the sound.
Bronze script
Seal script
Clerical script
Regular script
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pəʔ | pjuwX | fǒu | not |
HSK level 3
Appears in 72.4812% of movies
509th most common character in movies
620th most common character in books
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+5426 |
Shuowen | “否,不也。从口,从不,不亦聲。” |