fù
go to
Phonosemantic compound. 走 represents the meaning and 卜 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 赴
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to go | ||
to do at all costs | ||
to hurry | ||
to go through water and tread on fire (idiom); not afraid of any difficulty | ||
to keep an appointment |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pʰ(r)ok-s | phjuH | fù | hasten to |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.9037% of movies
2326th most common character in movies
1843rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+8D74 |
Shuowen | “赴,趨也。从走,仆省聲。” |
Sources
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