Chinese Character Wiki

樸

pǔ

simple

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

tree

菐 sound component

菐  Sound component

pú

  

(beat against), tedious

Evolution

樸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
樸 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
樸 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
樸 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
樸 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

朴 (樸) 

pǔ

simple, honest; plain; rough; plain and simple; Taiwan pr. [pú]

Most common words with 樸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

朴

plain and simple

朴素

unadorned

朴实

plain

质朴

simple

古朴

simple and unadorned (of art, architecture etc)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pʰˤrok

phaewk

pǔ

unworked wood


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.5720% of movies

2032nd most common character in movies

2092nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

朴

Unicode

U+6A38

Shuowen

“樸，木素也。从木，菐聲。”


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