Chinese Character Wiki
灋

fǎ

law

氵 represents the meaning and 去 represents the sound. 廌 depicts a legendary creature that was said to have been an arbiter of right and wrong.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

Likely alludes to water always flowing in a given path, or water always being flat and level.

廌 iconic component

廌  Iconic component

zhì

  

Xiezhi (unicorn)

Legendary creature that was said to have been an arbiter of right and wrong.

去 sound component

去  Sound component

qù

  

go away

Evolution

灋 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
灋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
灋 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
灋 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

灋  

fǎ

law

法 (灋) 

fǎ

old variant of 法[fǎ]

Most common words with 灋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

无法

unable

办法

means

方法

method

法

law

法律

law

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[p.k]ap

pjop

fǎ

model, law


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 97.5653% of movies

139th most common character in movies

65th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Simplified

法

Unicode

U+704B

Shuowen

“灋，刑也。平之如水，从水；廌，所以觸不直者，去之，从去。法，今文省。佱，古文。”


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