腐

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 府 + semantic 肉 (“ribs, flesh, body”) – decay as aspect of the flesh.

Han character

腐 (radical 130 肉+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 戈戈人月人 (IIOBO), four-corner 0022₇)

1. rot, decay, spoil
2. rotten

References

• KangXi: page 987, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29625
• Dae Jaweon: page 1439, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2933, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8150

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Cantonese

Hanzi

腐 (Yale fu2, fu6)

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Japanese

Kanji

腐 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ふ (fu)
• Kun: くさる (kusaru)

Compounds

• 腐食
• 腐敗

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Korean

Hanja

腐
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 썩을()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

腐 (pinyin fǔ (fu3), Wade-Giles fu³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

腐 (hủ)