Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 甫 represents the sound.
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | pjuX | p(r)aʔ | dried meat |
| Zhengzhang | baː | ||
| paʔ | |||
| Unicode | biǒ |
說文解字
乾肉也。从肉甫聲。
Sources
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)