bowels

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of .

府 sound component

  Sound component

  

government

Evolution

腑 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
腑 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

bowels, entrails, internal organs; internal organs

Most common words with 腑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

肺腑

bottom of the heart (fig.)

五脏六腑

five viscera and six bowels (TCM)

脏腑

inner organs

internal organs

肺腑之言

words from the bottom of one's heart