verb

Meanings

  1. 1 (archaic) variant of 俯: to bow the head; to look down

Examples

Gǔ shū zhōng zhège zì jiùshì fǔ de lìng yī xiěfǎ.
In old texts this character is just another way of writing 俯 (to look down).

Tips

history
is not used independently in modern Chinese. It is an old variant of (to bow the head, to look down); the calligrapher Zhao Mengfu used it in his courtesy name . Always write today.
register
Classical / variant only — seen in old texts and calligraphy, not in modern Chinese.

Components

radical
head; page (the 頁 radical)
Right side is the radical, originally a drawing of a head. It supplies the meaning: is about lowering the head, the same head sense as and .
phonetic
zhào
omen; a trillion
Left side is the sound element, with a strong drift from zhào to fǔ. It carries no 'omen' meaning here. The standard form uses a different phonetic for the same word.

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