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咅

pǒu

to spit out

Original meaning: 

not

Originally the same character as 否. A distinguishing mark was added later to the character to differentiate it from 咅. The current meaning "to spit out" is a phonetic loan.

Components
丶 distinguishing component

丶  Distinguishing component

zhǔ

  

dot

Mark used to differentiate 咅 from 否.

否 sound,meaning component

否  Sound Meaning component

fǒu, pǐ

  

not

Evolution

咅 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
咅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
咅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
咅 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
咅 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

咅  

pǒu

to spit out; pooh; pah; bah; (today used as a phonetic component in 部[bù], 倍[bèi], 培[péi], 剖[pōu] etc)

Component uses

Sound component in 16 characters (4 verified)

部 培 倍 陪 賠 赔 菩 剖 焙 碚 涪 瓿 锫 掊 踣 醅

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5485

Shuowen

“咅，相與語唾而不受也。从丶，从否，否亦聲。，咅或从豆，从欠。”
Sources

李学勤《字源》p.448



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