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阜

阜

See also: 阝 and 邑

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

阝 (when used as a left Chinese Radical)

Han character

阜 (radical 170 阜+0, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹口十 (HRJ), four-corner 2740₇)

Derived characters

Index:Chinese radical/阜

References

KangXi: page 1345, character 1

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41534

Dae Jaweon: page 1847, character 25

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4114, character 1

Unihan data for U+961C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		阜

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 阜
Oracle bone script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (阜) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
阜	*buʔ
埠	*baːs

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): fù (fu⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fau⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: fù
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ
  - Wade-Giles: fu⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuh
  - IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: fau⁶
  - Yale: fauh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fau⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /fɐu̯²²/

Middle Chinese: /bɨu^X/▼

Rime
Character	阜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	房久切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨu^X/
Pan Wuyun	/biu^X/
Shao Rongfen	/biəu^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buw^X/
Li Rong	/biu^X/
Wang Li	/bĭəu^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ə̯u^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fòu

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*[b](r)uʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*buʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	阜
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fù
Middle Chinese	‹ bjuw^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[b](r)uʔ/
English	big mound
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	阜
Reading #	1/1
No.	3533
Phonetic component	阜
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	婦
Old Chinese	/*buʔ/

Definitions

阜

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Japanese

Kanji

阜

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

On: ふ (fu)

Kun: おか (oka)

Korean

Hanja

阜 • ‎(bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune-Reischauer pu, Yale pu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

阜 (phụ)

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