跛
bǒ

lame

Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 皮 represents the sound.

Components

足
足 Meaning component
zú foot
皮
皮 Sound component
pí skin

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartpaXpˤajʔwalk lame
Zhengzhangprals
paːlʔ

說文解字

行不正也。从足皮聲。一曰足排之。讀若彼。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)