芙

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

Translingual

Han character

芙 (Kangxi 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)

Derived characters

• 𫽈

References

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

Chinese

trad.		芙
simp. #		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
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hû / phû

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fú
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fú
    • Wade–Giles: fu²
    • Yale: fú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fu⁴
    • Yale: fùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (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: bju

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
Baxter	bju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/bio/
Shao Rongfen	/bio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buə̆/
Li Rong	/bio/
Wang Li	/bĭu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu4

• 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 (chūshuǐfúróng)
• 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)

Japanese

Kanji

芙

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. lotus
2. Mount Fuji

Readings

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

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

芙: Hán Nôm readings: phù, trầu, giầu

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