仆
púpū HSK7

to fall forward

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Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 卜 represents the sound. Simplified form of 僕.

Components

亻
亻 Meaning component
rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

卜
卜 Sound component
bo fortune telling

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartphjuHpʰ(r)ok-s fall prostrate
phjuwHpʰok-s fall prostrate
phuwHpʰˤ(r)ok-s fall prostrate

說文解字

《說文》:“仆,頓也。从人,卜聲。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica