garden

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Originally written as .

Components
囗 meaning component

  Meaning component

wéi

  

surround

甫 sound,iconic component

  Sound Iconic component

  

begin

Pictograph of something sprouting () from a field ().

Evolution

圃 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
圃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
圃 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
圃 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

garden, cultivated field; garden; orchard

Most common words with 圃
Freq.
Word
Meaning

苗圃

seedbed

花圃

flowerbed

garden

园圃

garden plot

菜圃

vegetable field

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3472nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+5703

Shuowen

“圃,穜菜曰圃。从囗,甫聲。”


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