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Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC 
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC 
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD Regular Modern
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Phonosemantic compound. 囗 represents the meaning and 甫 represents the sound. Originally written as 甫.
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | |
|---|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | paːʔ | |
| paːs | ||
| Unicode | bǒ |
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
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)