Chinese Character Wiki
布

bù

cotton cloth

Phonosemantic compound. 巾 represents the meaning and 父 represents the sound.

Components
父 sound component

父  Sound component

fù

  

father

巾 meaning component

巾  Meaning component

jīn

  

cloth

Evolution

布 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
布 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

布  

bù

cotton cloth, textiles, linen; cloth; to declare; to announce; to spread; to make known

布 (佈) 

bù

variant of 布[bù]

Most common words with 布
Freq.
Word
Meaning

宣布

to declare

公布

to announce

布

cloth

发布

to release

分布

to scatter

Component uses

Sound component in 4 characters (1 verified)

佈 怖 鈽 钸

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pˤa-s

puH

bù

cloth

*pˤa-s

puH

bù

cloth


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 63.5752% of movies

383rd most common character in movies

380th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+5E03

Shuowen

“布，枲織也。从巾，父聲。”


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