Character: 父
Modern (Beijing) reading: fù
Preclassic Old Chinese: baʔ
Classic Old Chinese: bá
Western Han Chinese: bá
Eastern Han Chinese: bwá
Early Postclassic Chinese: bwó
Middle Postclassic Chinese: bwó
Late Postclassic Chinese: bwó
Middle Chinese: bǘ
English meaning : father, (relative of father's generation:) uncle
Russian meaning[s]: 1) отец, батюшка, папаша; 2) старший родственник; [fǔ] 1) старый (почтенный) селянин; 2) второе имя, прозвище, см. 甫
Shuowen gloss: 巨也.家長率教者.從又.舉杖.
Comments: In early inscriptions the character is sometimes also used instead of 甫 *paʔ (honorific suffix). For initial *b- cf. Min forms: Xiamen pe6, Chaozhou pe4.
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 0102 a-e
Bijiang Bai: -bo1
Shijing occurrences: 2.3, 10.3, 29.4, 39.2, 51.1, 51.2
