敷

敷

敷 U+6577, 敷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6577 ← 敶 [U+6576] CJK Unified Ideographs 數 → [U+6578]

Translingual

Han character

敷 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 戈尸人大 (ISOK), four-corner 5824₀, composition ⿰旉攵)

References

• KangXi: page 474, character 53
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13359
• Dae Jaweon: page 829, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1473, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6577

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Chinese

trad.		敷
simp. #		敷
2nd round simp.		𪯈
alternative forms		旉 尃 𢾭 傅

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (旉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
敷	*pʰa
璷	*ɦb·ra

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fū (fu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu¹
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): fû

  (Meixian, Guangdong): fu¹

• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): pho͘ / hu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fū
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fu
    • Wade–Giles: fu¹
    • Yale: fū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fu
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fu¹
    • Yale: fū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fû
    • Hakka Romanization System: fu´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fu¹
    • Sinological IPA: /fu²⁴/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: fu¹
    • Sinological IPA: /fu⁴⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pho͘
    • Tâi-lô: phoo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phof
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰɔ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰɔ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hu
    • Tâi-lô: hu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hw
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hu³³/

Note:

• pho͘ - vernacular;
• hu - literary.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hu¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hu³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /pʰɨo/

Rime
Character	敷
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	芳無切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰio/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰuə̆/
Li Rong	/pʰio/
Wang Li	/pʰĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰ(r)a/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰa/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	敷
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fū
Middle Chinese	‹ phju ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰ(r)a/
English	spread widely
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	敷
Reading #	1/1
No.	3279
Phonetic component	旉
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	敷
Old Chinese	/*pʰa/

Definitions

敷

1. to spread; to diffuse
2. to apply; to paint
3. (literary) to elaborate; to state
4. to be sufficient
5. (～母) (Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of 敷 (MC pʰɨo)

Compounds

不敷 (bùfū) 入不敷出 (rùbùfūchū) 冷敷 (lěngfū) 冷敷法 外敷 播敷 敷佑 敷化 (fūhuà) 敷告 敷土 敷天 敷奏 敷布 (fūbù) 敷彩泥塑 敷愉

敷掩 敷政 敷教 (fūjiào) 敷文 敷料 (fūliào) 敷施 敷求 敷治 敷演 敷章 敷粉 敷衍 (fūyǎn) 敷衍了事 (fūyǎnliǎoshì) 敷衍搪塞 (fūyǎntángsè) 敷衍故事

面如敷粉 敷張揚厲／敷张扬厉 敷教明倫／敷教明伦 敷暢／敷畅 敷榮／敷荣 (fūróng) 敷蓋物／敷盖物 敷藥／敷药 (fūyào) 敷衍塞責／敷衍塞责 (fūyǎnsèzé) 敷訓／敷训 敷設／敷设 敷陳／敷陈 熱敷／热敷 (rèfū) 羅敷／罗敷 (Luó Fū) 羅敷有夫／罗敷有夫

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Japanese

Shinjitai	敷
Kyūjitai [1]	敷󠄁 敷+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	敷󠄃 敷+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

敷

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. spread
2. pave
3. sit
4. promulgate

Readings

• Go-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
• Kun: しく (shiku, 敷く, Jōyō); しき (shiki, 敷); あまねし (amaneshi, 敷し); のべる (noberu, 敷べる)
• Nanori: しき (shiki); のぶ (nobu); ひら (hira)

Compounds

Compounds

• お化(ば)け屋(や)敷(しき) (obakeyashiki, “haunted house”)
• 座(ざ)敷(しき) (zashiki, “Japanese-style tatami-floored room”)
• 座(ざ)敷(しき)牢(ろう) (zashikirō, “confinement room for criminals”)
• 座(ざ)敷(しき)童(わらし) (zashiki warashi, “red-faced child-yokai”)
• 敷(しき)居(い) (shikii, “threshold — bottom part of a doorway”)
• 敷(しき)瓦(がわら) (shikigawara)
• 敷(しき)田(た) (Shikita, A surname.)
• 敷(しき)地(ち) (shikichi, “site, premises”)
• 敷(しき)布(ふ) (shikifu, “bedsheet”)
• 風(ふ)呂(ろ)敷(しき) (furoshiki, “type of Japanese wrapping cloth; furoshiki”)
• 本(もと)屋(や)敷(しき) (Motoyashiki, A surname.)
• 屋(や)敷(しき) (yashiki, “estate, grounds”)
• 屋(や)敷(しき) (Yashiki, A surname.)
• 幽(ゆう)霊(れい)屋(や)敷(しき) (yūrei yashiki, “haunted house”)
• 敷(ふ)衍(えん) (fuen, “amplification, elaboration”)
  • 敷(ふ)延(えん) (fuen, alternative form of the above)
• 敷(ふ)設(せつ) (fusetsu, “construction”)

References

1. 1914, 漢和大辭書 (Kanwa Dai Jisho, “The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary”) (in Japanese), page 1020 (paper), page 561 (digital), Tōkyō: 興文社 (Kōbunsha)

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Korean

Hanja

敷 • (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune–Reischauer pu, Yale pu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

敷: Hán Nôm readings: phô, phu

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