bǔ
a chemical compound
To speak 口 of the future 卜; 卜 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 卟
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
see 卟啉, porphyrin | ||
porphyrin (organic chemical essential to hemoglobin and chlorophyll) (loanword) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5213th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+535F |
Shuowen | “卟，卜以問疑也。从口、卜。讀與稽同。《書》云：‘卟疑’。” |
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