孚
fúfū

captive

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approved by Prismcool · Aug 15, 2023, 06:18 PM · Reviewed by Prismcool on Aug 15, 2023, 06:18 PM

Changed brood over eggs to captive.

Changed fields: gloss, hint, originalMeaning

Depicts a hand (爪) capturing a child (子). Based on the original meaning "captive", now written as 俘.

Components

爫
爫 Iconic component
zhǎo hand, claw

爫 is a component form of 爪.

子
子 Iconic component
zi, zǐ child

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangpʰuw

說文解字

《說文》：“孚，卵孚也。从爪，从子。一曰信也。，古文孚从，，古文。”

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)