普 - Dong Chinese dictionary

pǔ

universal

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 並 represents the sound.

Components

bìng

side by side

普 and 並 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

日 Meaning component

rì

sun

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

普

pǔ

universal, general, widespread; general; popular; everywhere; universal

Most common words with 普

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	普通	common
	普遍	universal
	普	general
	普通人	ordinary person
	普及	to generalize

Component uses

Sound component in 5 characters (0 verified)

谱譜氆镨潽

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 43.1203% of movies

700th most common character in movies

630th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	12
Unicode	U+666E
Shuowen	“暜，日無色也。从日，从竝。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

zdic

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