fǔ
rotten, decay
Phonosemantic compound. 府 represents the sound and 肉 represents the meaning.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b](r)oʔ | bjuX | fǔ | rotten |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 12.1096% of movies
1831st most common character in movies
1576th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+8150 |
Shuowen | “腐，爛也。从肉，府聲。” |
Sources
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