芙

芙

芙 U+8299, 芙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8299 ← 芘 [U+8298] CJK Unified Ideographs 芚 → [U+829A]

Translingual

Han character

芙 (radical 140, 艸+4, 8 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 7 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿手人 (TQO), four-corner 4453₀, composition ⿱艹夫)

| kanji used=⿱艹夫

References

• KangXi: page 1019, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30694
• Dae Jaweon: page 1476, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3177, character 11
• Unihan data for U+8299

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		芙

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (夫) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
趺	*pa
肤	*pa
邞	*pa
鈇	*pa
衭	*pa
玞	*pa
夫	*pa, *ba
鳺	*pa
扶	*pa, *ba
妋	*pa, *qu
麩	*pʰa
蚨	*ba
芙	*ba
颫	*ba
枎	*ba

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fú (fu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): hû / phû

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: fú
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
    • Wade–Giles: fu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
    • IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fu⁴
    • Yale: fùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /fuː²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hû / phû
    • Tâi-lô: hû / phû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: huu, phuu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hu²⁴/, /pʰu²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hu²⁴/, /pʰu²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hu¹³/, /pʰu¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hu²⁴/, /pʰu²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hu²³/, /pʰu²³/

Note:

• hû - literary;
• phû - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: /bɨo/▼

Rime
Character	芙
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	防無切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/bio/
Shao Rongfen	/bio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buə̆/
Li Rong	/bio/
Wang Li	/bĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fú

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ba/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	芙
Reading #	1/1
No.	3283
Phonetic component	夫
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	扶
Old Chinese	/*ba/
Notes	見爾雅

Definitions

芙

1. Only used in 芙蓉 (fúróng) and 芙蕖 (fúqú).

Compounds

出水芙蓉 初發芙蓉／初发芙蓉 吳爾芙／吴尔芙 山芙蓉 泡芙 (pàofú) 芙蓉 (fúróng)

芙蓉之精 芙蓉出水 芙蓉刃 芙蓉國／芙蓉国 芙蓉帳／芙蓉帐 芙蓉幕

芙蓉月印 芙蓉糕 芙蓉褥 芙蕖 (fúqú) 蘿芙木／萝芙木 (luófúmù) 阿芙蓉 (āfúróng)

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Japanese

Kanji

芙

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぶ (bu)
• Kan-on: ふ (fu)
• Kun: はす (hasu, 芙)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

芙 (phù, trầu, giầu)

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