turban

Components
巾 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

cloth

towel

菐 sound component

  Sound component

  

(beat against), tedious

Evolution

幞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
幞 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

turban; old form of turban; variant of , cloth wrapper for bundles

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b](r)ok

bjowk

kerchief (Shuōwén)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6709th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+5E5E

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“幞,帊也。从巾,菐聲。”


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