补

See also: 補

补	U+8865, 补 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8865

← 衤
[U+8864]

CJK Unified Ideographs

衦 →
[U+8866]

Translingual

Han character

补 (radical 145, 衣+2, 8 strokes, cangjie input 中卜 (LY), composition ⿰衤卜)

References

KangXi: not present, would follow page 1111, character 6

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3074, character 5

Unihan data for U+8865

Chinese

Glyph origin

Simplified from 補 (甫 → 卜), with a simpler yet more apparent phonetic component. Officially adopted as the simplified form of 補 in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (《漢字簡化方案》) in 1956.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 补 – see 補 (“to mend; to repair; to fix; to make up for a deficiency”). (This character, 补, is the simplified form of 補.)
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.