仏

See also: 佛

仏 U+4ECF, 仏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4ECF ← 从 [U+4ECE] CJK Unified Ideographs 仐 → [U+4ED0]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

仏 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 人戈 (OI) or 難人戈 (XOI), four-corner 2223₀, composition ⿰亻厶)

Derived characters

• 𮡫

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 92, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 364
• Dae Jaweon: page 195, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 110, character 5
• Unihan data for U+4ECF

Chinese

Glyph origin

Used since the Northern and Southern dynasties. To avoid using the character 佛, 某 (mǒu, “someone”) is used instead; the character is ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 亻 + 厶, where 厶 is a variant form of 某.

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 仏 – see 佛 (“Buddha; The Enlightened One; statue of Buddha; etc.”). (This character is an ancient form of 佛).

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 仏 – see 似 (“to be like; to be similar to; to resemble; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 似).