mound

Depicts steps on a hillside.

Evolution

阜 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
阜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
阜 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
阜 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

mound; abundant, ample, numerous; abundant

Most common words with 阜
Freq.
Word
Meaning

mound

阜阳

Fuyang prefecture-level city in Anhui

曲阜

hometown of Confucius 孔子[Kǒng​zǐ]

阜新

Fuxin prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省 in northeast China

阜阳市

Fuyang prefecture-level city in Anhui

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b](r)uʔ

bjuwX

big mound


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3445th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+961C

Shuowen

“,大陸,山無石者。”


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