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縛

fù

to tie

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 尃 represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

尃 sound component

尃  Sound component

fū

  

state, announce

Evolution

縛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

缚 (縛) 

fù

to tie; to bind; Taiwan pr. [fú]

Most common words with 縛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

束缚

to bind

缚

to bind

作茧自缚

hoist by his own petard

手无缚鸡之力

fig. weak

绑缚

to tie up

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*bak

bjak

fù

bind (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.8283% of movies

2642nd most common character in movies

2577th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

缚

Unicode

U+7E1B

Shuowen

“縛，束也。从糸，尃聲。”


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