孛
bèi

flourishing, thriving

Original form of 勃. Depicts plants thriving (丰) and a child (子) growing.

Components

丰
丰 Iconic component
fēng luxuriant
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 丰 than it was in ancient scripts.
子
子 Iconic component
zi, zǐ child

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (2 of 10 verified)

勃脖悖饽鹁荸鵓桲餑哱

Meaning (1)

勃

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartbwojH[b]ˤ[u]t-s comet
bwot[b]ˤ[u]t comet

說文解字

《說文》：“孛，也，从；人色也，从子。《論語》曰：‘色孛如也’。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.503-504
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)