fú
tally, symbol, mark
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 付 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b](r)o | bju | fú | a tally |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 20.6471% of movies
1455th most common character in movies
1205th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+7B26 |
Shuowen | “符,信也。漢制以竹,長六寸,分而相合。从竹,付聲。” |
Sources
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