Chinese Character Wiki
甫

fǔ

begin

Original meaning: 

garden, orchard

Pictograph of something sprouting (屮) from a field (田), depicting a garden or orchard, now written as 圃. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
屮 iconic component

屮  Iconic component

chè

  

sprout

田 iconic component

田  Iconic component

tián

  

field

Evolution

甫 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
甫 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

甫  

fǔ

begin; man, father; great; a distance of ten li; (classical) barely; just; just now

Most common words with 甫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

甫

just

杜甫

Du Fu (712-770), great Tang dynasty poet

皇甫

two-character surname Huangfu

神甫

(spiritual) father

辜振甫

Koo Chen-fu (1917-2005), Taiwanese businessman and diplomat

Component uses

Sound component in 20 characters (6 verified)

補 捕 圃 匍 黼 尃 舖 鋪 铺 辅 輔 浦 哺 脯 埔 莆 逋 晡 乶 旉

Iconic component in 2 characters (2 verified)

圃 尃

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

牖

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*p(r)aʔ

pjuX

fǔ

begin

*praʔ

pjuX

fǔ

great


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.3524% of movies

2983rd most common character in movies

2152nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+752B

Shuowen

“甫，男子美稱也。从用、父，父亦聲。”


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