to stumble and fall prone stiff in death

Components

Meaning component
foot

foot

Sound component
pǒu to spit out

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangpʰɯs
bɯːɡ
Unicodebhək

說文解字

僵也。从足咅聲。《春秋傳》曰:“晉人踣之。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica