fú
spokes of wheel
Phonosemantic compound. 車 represents the meaning and 畐 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 輻
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
radiation | ||
nuclear radiation | ||
irradiation | ||
spoke of a wheel | ||
wheel spoke |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pək | pjuwk | fú | spokes of a wheel |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.1395% of movies
2458th most common character in movies
2428th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8F3B |
Shuowen | “輻，輪轑也。从車，畐聲。” |
Sources
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