扑跌撲跌 in English

Character breakdown

• 扑撲 pū to throw oneself at
• 跌 diē to fall

How it used to be written

扑

These are the forms of 撲, the traditional character: 扑 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Bronze script 西周晚期
• Small seal script
• See all 4 forms

跌

• Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).