slope

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

皮 sound component

  Sound component

  

skin

Evolution

坡 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
坡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
坡 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

slope, bank, hillside; slope; CL:|[gè]; sloping; slanted

Most common words with 坡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

新加坡

Singapore

slope

山坡

hillside

斜坡

slope

滑坡

rockslide

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 5.3019% of movies

2359th most common character in movies

1550th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5761

Shuowen

“坡,阪也。从土,皮聲。”


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