敷

Translingual

Han character

敷 (radical 66 攴+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 戈尸人大 (ISOK), four-corner 5824₀, composition ⿰⿱甫方攵)

1. spread, diffuse
2. apply, paint

References

• KangXi: page 474, character 53
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13359
• Dae Jaweon: page 829, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1473, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6577

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		敷

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fū (fu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: fū
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨ
    • Wade-Giles: fu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fu
    • IPA ^(key): /fu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fu¹
    • Yale: fū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu¹
    • IPA ^(key): /fuː⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (敷, reconstructed)
Character (敷), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 滂 (2) Final: 虞 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 芳無切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/pʰɨo/	/pʰi̯u/	/pʰio/	/pʰio/	/pʰuə̆/	/pʰĭu/	/pʰio/

Old Chinese pronunciation (敷, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
敷								fū								‹ phju ›								/*pʰ(r)a/								spread widely
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
敷					3279					旉					魚					0					敷					/*pʰa/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

敷

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. spread
2. pave
3. sit
4. promulgate

Readings

• On: ふ (fu)
• Kun: しく (shiku), しき (shiki)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

敷 (phu, phô)

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