髴
fú HSK6

disheveled hair

Phonosemantic compound. 髟 represents the meaning and 弗 represents the sound.

Components

髟
髟 Meaning component
biāo, piào, shān long hair
弗
弗 Sound component
fú not

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangpʰɯds
pɯd
pʰɯd
Unicodepiət

說文解字

《說文》：“髴，髴若似也。从髟，弗聲。”

Sources

Character origin
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)