鄱
pó

county and lake in Jiangxi

Components

番
番 Sound component
fān to take turns
阝
阝 Meaning component
fù hill, place

place

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartba[b]ˤar鄱陽 Póyáng (place name)
Zhengzhangbaːl

說文解字

鄱陽，豫章縣。从邑番聲。

Sources

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