敷

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		敷
simp. #		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
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pho͘ / hu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hu¹

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

Note:

• pho͘ - vernacular;
• hu - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: hu¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hu
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hu³³/

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• Middle Chinese: phju

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
Baxter	phju
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu1

• 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

(deprecated template usage) 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-)

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Japanese

Kanji

敷

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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

Readings

• Go-on: 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

(deprecated template usage) 敷 (phô, phu)

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