Chinese Character Wiki

匐

fú

fall prostrate

Phonosemantic compound. 勹 represents the meaning and 畐 represents the sound.

Components
勹 meaning component

勹  Meaning component

bāo

  

wrap

勹 is a component form of 包.

畐 sound component

畐  Sound component

fú

  

to fill

Evolution

匐 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
匐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
匐 Clerical script Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Clerical script

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
匐 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

匐  

fú

fall prostrate; crawl; to fall prostrate

Most common words with 匐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

匍匐

to crawl

匐

to fall prostrate

匍匐茎

(botany) stolon

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

蔔

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

蔔

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]ək

bjuwk

fú

crawl (bu.bjuwk)

*[b]ˤək (< *[b]ˤuk ?)

bok

fú

crawl


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4278th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5310

Shuowen

“匐，伏地也。从勹，畐聲。”


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