fá
cut down
Original meaning:
to behead someone
Depicts a weapon (戈) slashing a person's (亻) neck. Based on the original meaning "to behead someone". The meaning later shifted to "to attack" and "cut down".
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
fá
cut down, subjugate, attack; to cut down; to fell; to dispatch an expedition against; to attack; to boast; Taiwan pr. [fā]
Most common words with 伐
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
pace | ||
to fell | ||
to cut wood | ||
to suppress by armed force | ||
Bavaria |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-pat | bjot | fá | cut; strike; attack |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.9084% of movies
2586th most common character in movies
1810th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+4F10 |
Shuowen | “伐，擊也。从人持戈。一曰敗也。” |
Sources
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