fǔ
axe
Phonosemantic compound. 斤 represents the meaning and 父 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 斧
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
hatchet | ||
ax | ||
axe | ||
bold and decisive | ||
uncanny workmanship |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*p(r)aʔ | pjuX | fǔ | axe |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.0434% of movies
2606th most common character in movies
2771st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+65A7 |
Shuowen | “斧，斫也。从斤，父聲。” |
Sources
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