敷

敷 U+6577, 敷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6577 ← 敶 [U+6576] CJK Unified Ideographs 數 → [U+6578]

Translingual

Han character

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

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

simp. and trad.		敷

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (旉) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
敷	*pʰa
璷	*ɦb·ra

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fū (fu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu¹
• Min Nan (POJ): hu / pho͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: fū
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨ
    • Wade–Giles: fu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fu
    • IPA ^(key): /fu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fu¹
    • Yale: fū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu¹
    • IPA ^(key): /fuː⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hu
    • Tâi-lô: hu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hw
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hu³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pho͘
    • Tâi-lô: phoo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phof
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰɔ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰɔ³³/

Note:

• hu - literary;
• pho͘ - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: /pʰɨo/▼

Rime
Character	敷
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	芳無切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰio/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰuə̆/
Li Rong	/pʰio/
Wang Li	/pʰĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fū

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰ(r)a/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰa/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	敷
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fū
Middle Chinese	‹ phju ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰ(r)a/
English	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	敷
Reading #	1/1
No.	3279
Phonetic component	旉
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	敷
Old Chinese	/*pʰa/

Definitions

敷

1. to spread; to diffuse
2. to apply; to paint
3. (～母) (phonology) a Middle Chinese initial and a variant of the 'Phags-pa script letter ꡰ (f¹-)

Compounds

• 不敷
• 入不敷出
• 冷敷 (lěngfū)
• 冷敷法
• 外敷
• 播敷
• 敷佑
• 敷化
• 敷告
• 敷土
• 敷天
• 敷奏
• 敷布 (fūbù)
• 敷張揚厲／敷张扬厉
• 敷彩泥塑

• 敷愉
• 敷掩
• 敷政
• 敷教
• 敷教明倫／敷教明伦
• 敷文
• 敷料 (fūliào)
• 敷施
• 敷暢／敷畅
• 敷榮／敷荣
• 敷求
• 敷治
• 敷演
• 敷章
• 敷粉

• 敷蓋物／敷盖物
• 敷藥／敷药
• 敷衍 (fūyǎn)
• 敷衍了事
• 敷衍塞責／敷衍塞责
• 敷衍搪塞
• 敷衍故事
• 敷訓／敷训
• 敷設／敷设
• 敷陳／敷陈
• 熱敷／热敷 (rèfū)
• 羅敷／罗敷 (Luó Fū)
• 羅敷有夫／罗敷有夫
• 面如敷粉

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Japanese

Kanji

敷

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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

Readings

• Goon: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
• Kan’on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
• Kun: しく (shiku, 敷く, Jōyō); しき (shiki, 敷)

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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 (phô, phu)

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