a kind of legendary tree

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

plant

甫 sound component

  Sound component

  

begin

Evolution

莆 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
莆 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
莆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
莆 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

a kind of legendary tree; place name

Most common words with 莆
Freq.
Word
Meaning

place name

莆田

Putian prefecture level city in Fujian

莆田市

Putian prefecture level city in Fujian

莆田地区

Putian prefecture (old term)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4927th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+8386

Shuowen

“莆,萐莆也。从艸,甫聲。”


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