law

represents the meaning and represents the sound. depicts a legendary creature that was said to have been an arbiter of right and wrong.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

Likely alludes to water always flowing in a given path, or water always being flat and level.

廌 iconic component

  Iconic component

zhì

  

Xiezhi (unicorn)

Legendary creature that was said to have been an arbiter of right and wrong.

去 sound component

  Sound component

  

go away

Evolution

灋 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

law

() 

old variant of [fǎ]

Most common words with 灋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

无法

unable

办法

means

方法

method

law

法律

law

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[p.k]ap

pjop

model, law


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 97.5653% of movies

139th most common character in movies

65th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Simplified

Unicode

U+704B

Shuowen

“灋,刑也。平之如水,从水;廌,所以觸不直者,去之,从去。法,今文省。佱,古文。”


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