overgrown with grass

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

weed

弗 sound component

  Sound component

  

not

Evolution

茀 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
茀 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

overgrown with grass, weedy; luxuriant growth

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pʰ[u]t

phjut

shrubby

*p[u]t

pjut

remove dense vegetation


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6476th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+8300

Shuowen

“茀,道多草不可行。从艸,弗聲。”


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