fù
bear, carry
Depicts a person (人) carrying shells (貝) on their back.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 負
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to be in charge of | ||
person in charge | ||
to bear | ||
burden | ||
to bully |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b]əʔ | bjuwX | fù | carry on the back |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 58.1291% of movies
746th most common character in movies
691st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8CA0 |
Shuowen | “負,恃也。从人守貝有所恃也。一曰受貸不償。” |
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