Chinese Character Wiki
符

fú

tally, symbol, mark

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 付 represents the sound.

Components
⺮ meaning component

⺮  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

⺮ is a component form of 竹.

付 sound component

付  Sound component

fù

  

pay

Evolution

符 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
符 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
符 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
符 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

符  

fú

i.d. tag, tally, symbol, charm; mark; sign; talisman; to seal; to correspond to; tally; symbol; written charm; to coincide

符  

Fú

surname Fu

Most common words with 符
Freq.
Word
Meaning

符合

in keeping with

符号

symbol

相符

to match

不符

inconsistent

符

mark

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b](r)o

bju

fú

a tally


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 20.6471% of movies

1455th most common character in movies

1205th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+7B26

Shuowen

“符，信也。漢制以竹，長六寸，分而相合。从竹，付聲。”


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