Chinese Character Wiki
付

fù

pay

Depicts a hand (寸) giving payment to a person (亻).

Components
亻 iconic component

亻  Iconic component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

寸 iconic component

寸  Iconic component

cùn

  

(hand), inch

Depicts a hand.

Evolution

付 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
付 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
付 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
付 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

付  

fù

give, deliver, pay, hand over; entrust; to pay; to hand over to; classifier for pairs or sets of things

付  

Fù

surname Fu

Most common words with 付
Freq.
Word
Meaning

付

to pay

付出

to pay

支付

to pay (money)

对付

to handle

应付

to cope

Component uses

Sound component in 10 characters (3 verified)

府 附 符 咐 駙 驸 苻 鲋 跗 拊

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*p(r)o-s

pjuH

fù

give


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 66.2182% of movies

612th most common character in movies

820th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+4ED8

Shuowen

“付，與也。从寸，持物對人。”


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