fú
kind of bat
Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 畐 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.3477% of movies
2430th most common character in movies
3335th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+8760 |
Shuowen | “蝠,蝙蝠。服翼也。从虫,畐聲。” |
Sources
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