圃
pǔ

garden

Phonosemantic compound. 囗 represents the meaning and 甫 represents the sound. Originally written as 甫.

Components

囗
囗 Meaning component
wéi, guó surround
甫
甫 SoundIconic component
fu begin

Pictograph of something sprouting (屮) from a field (田).

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangpaːʔ
paːs
Unicodebǒ

說文解字

《說文》:“圃,穜菜曰圃。从囗,甫聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica