universal

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
並 sound component

  Sound component

bìng

  

side by side

日 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sun

Evolution

普 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
普 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
普 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
普 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

universal, general, widespread; general; popular; everywhere; universal

Most common words with 普
Freq.
Word
Meaning

普通

common

普遍

universal

general

普通人

ordinary person

普及

to generalize

Component uses

Sound component in 5 characters (0 verified)

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 43.1203% of movies

700th most common character in movies

630th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+666E

Shuowen

“暜,日無色也。从日,从竝。”


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