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佛

fú, fó

Buddha

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 弗 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

弗 sound component

弗  Sound component

fú

  

not

Evolution

佛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
佛 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

佛  

fú

Buddha; of Buddhism; merciful person; Buddhist image; the dead (Jap.)

佛  

Fó

Buddhism

佛 (彿) 

fú

seemingly

佛 (髴) 

fú

(female) head ornament; variant of 彿|佛[fú]

Most common words with 佛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

佛

seemingly

仿佛

to seem

哈佛

Harvard

佛罗里达

Florida

佛教

Buddhism

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b][u]t

bjut

fú

great


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 22.7775% of movies

1096th most common character in movies

771st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+4F5B

Shuowen

“佛，見不審也。从人，弗聲。”


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