cheek bone

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
车 meaning component

  Meaning component

chē

  

vehicle

甫 sound component

  Sound component

  

begin

Evolution

辅 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
辅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
辅 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
辅 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

cheek bone; protective; assist; to assist; to complement; auxiliary

Most common words with 辅
Freq.
Word
Meaning

辅助

to assist

辅导

to mentor

to assist

辅导员

coach (teacher or trainer)

基辅

Kiev, capital of Ukraine

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 5.7985% of movies

2198th most common character in movies

2033rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+8F85


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