Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 孚 represents the sound. Originally written as 孚, which depicts a hand (爪) capturing a child (子).
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | pʰuw |
說文解字
《說文》：“俘，軍所獲也。从人，孚聲。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Zhengzhang Shangfang
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)