巿
fú

ceremonial knee coverings

Depicts ceremonial knee coverings that hang from a belt over clothing. Original form of 韍.

Components

一
一 Iconic component
yī one

Used here to depict the belt.

◎
◎ Iconic component
characterless component

Depicts the knee coverings.


Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

肺芾旆

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

沛

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangpub

說文解字

《說文》：“巿，韠也。上古衣蔽前而已，巿以象之。天子朱巿，朱矦赤巿，大夫葱衡。从巾，象連帶之形。韍，篆文巿从韋，从犮。”

Sources

Character origin
李学勤 《字源》 p.694季旭昇 《說文新證》 p.624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)