fèn

manure

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
米 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

rice

異 sound component

  Sound component

  

different

Evolution

糞 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
糞 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
糞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
糞 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
糞 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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fèn

manure, dung, night soil; manure; dung

Most common words with 糞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

manure

粪便

excrement

大粪

human excrement

粪土

dung

化粪池

septic tank

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*p[u]r-s

pjunH

fèn

manure, dirt


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.3569% of movies

2433rd most common character in movies

2884th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+7CDE

Shuowen

“糞,棄除也。从廾推糞采也。官溥說:似米而非米者,矢字。”


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