fú
support
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 夫 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
fú
support, help; protect; hold on; to support with the hand; to help sb up; to support oneself by holding onto something; to help
Most common words with 扶
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to help | ||
to help | ||
assistance to the poor | ||
handrail | ||
to help the dying and heal the injured |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-[p](r)a | bju | fú | crawl |
*m-[p](r)a | bju | fú | assist |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 9.2103% of movies
2104th most common character in movies
1612th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+6276 |
Shuowen | “扶，左也。从手，夫聲。，古文扶。” |
Sources
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