fù
attach, be near
Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 付 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*N-p(r)oʔ-s | bjuH | fù | be attached to |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 39.5163% of movies
1071st most common character in movies
923rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+9644 |
Shuowen | “附,附婁,小土山也。从,付聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘附婁無松柏。’” |
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