物
wù
#142 most
frequent character
(bound form) thing
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
物 joins 牜 cow with 勿 wù, the sound part, and first meant a kind of colored cow. The common sense 'thing' was borrowed only for the sound, with no link to the shape.
Drawn as: cow
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