bāo
a variety of rush
A flower 艹 unfolding 包; 包 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pˤ<r>u | paew | bāo | reed mat for wrapping |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3798th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+82DE |
Shuowen | “苞，艸也。南陽以為麤履。从艸，包聲。” |
Sources
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