符

符 U+7B26, 符 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B26 ← 笥 [U+7B25] CJK Unified Ideographs 笧 → [U+7B27]

Translingual

Han character

符 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹人木戈 (HODI), four-corner 8824₃, composition ⿱𥫗付)

Derived characters

• 𡠞, 𣻜, 𣘧, 䒀, 𫙳, 𥮯, 𭚚

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 880, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25935
• Dae Jaweon: page 1308, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2956, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7B26

Chinese

trad.		符
simp. #		符
alternative forms		苻

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (付) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
鉜	*bu
跗	*po, *bos
柎	*po
腑	*poʔ
俯	*poʔ
府	*poʔ
付	*pos
咐	*pos
怤	*pʰo
泭	*pʰo, *bo
姇	*pʰo
紨	*pʰo
拊	*pʰoʔ
弣	*pʰoʔ
符	*bo
苻	*bo
坿	*bo, *bos
腐	*boʔ
附	*bos
駙	*bos
鮒	*bos
袝	*bos
蚹	*bos
胕	*bos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *bo): semantic 𥫗 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 付 (OC *pos).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fú (fu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fù / phù
• Eastern Min (BUC): hù
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hû

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hu⁵

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶vu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fú
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fú
    • Wade–Giles: fu²
    • Yale: fú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fu⁴
    • Yale: fùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fù / phù
    • Hakka Romanization System: fu^ˇ / pu^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fu² / pu²
    • Sinological IPA: /fu¹¹/, /pʰu¹¹/

Note:

• fù - literary;
• phù - vernacular.

• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: hù
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hu⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hû
    • Tâi-lô: hû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: huu
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hu²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hu¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Taipei): /hu²⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hu⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hû
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hu⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶vu
    • MiniDict: vu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³vu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /vu²³/

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• Middle Chinese: bju

Rime
Character	符
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	防無切
Baxter	bju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/bio/
Shao Rongfen	/bio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buə̆/
Li Rong	/bio/
Wang Li	/bĭu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b](r)o/

  (Zhengzhang): /*bo/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	符
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fú
Middle Chinese	‹ bju ›
Old Chinese	/*[b](r)o/
English	a tally
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	符
Reading #	1/1
No.	3520
Phonetic component	付
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	扶
Old Chinese	/*bo/

Definitions

符

1. (historical) tally
2. symbol; sign

   符號／符号  ―  fúhào  ―  symbol

3. charm
4. to match; to correspond
5. a surname

Compounds

• 不符 (bùfú)
• 休止符 (xiūzhǐfú)
• 催命符 (cuīmìng fú)
• 八分音符 (bāfēn yīnfú)
• 兵符 (bīngfú)
• 分符擁節 / 分符拥节
• 刻符
• 剖符
• 化學符號 / 化学符号
• 原子符號 / 原子符号
• 名不符實 / 名不符实 (míngbùfúshí)
• 名實相符 / 名实相符 (míngshíxiāngfú)
• 合符
• 名符其實 / 名符其实 (míngfúqíshí)
• 四分音符 (sìfēn yīnfú)
• 天符
• 字符 (zìfú)
• 安胎符
• 形符
• 意符 (yìfú)
• 書符咒水 / 书符咒水
• 朱砂符
• 桃符
• 標點符號 / 标点符号 (biāodiǎn fúhào)
• 注音符號 / 注音符号 (zhùyīn fúhào)
• 王符
• 瑞符
• 畫符 / 画符 (huàfú)
• 相符 (xiāngfú)
• 神符
• 祥符
• 禎符 / 祯符
• 符兒 / 符儿
• 符冊 / 符册 (fúcè)
• 符印
• 符合
• 符咒 (fúzhòu)
• 符命
• 符契
• 符應 / 符应
• 符拔
• 符拉迪沃斯托克 (Fúlādíwòsītuōkè)
• 符水 (fúshuǐ)
• 符牒 (fúdié)
• 符瑞
• 符璽 / 符玺
• 符碼 / 符码
• 符節 / 符节 (fújié)
• 符節文 / 符节文
• 符篆
• 符籙 / 符箓 (fúlù)
• 符號 / 符号 (fúhào)
• 符號邏輯 / 符号逻辑 (fúhào luójí)
• 符言
• 符讖 / 符谶
• 符采
• 符驗 / 符验
• 聲符 / 声符 (shēngfú)
• 聲調符號 / 声调符号 (shēngdiào fúhào)
• 若合符節 / 若合符节
• 虎符 (hǔfú)
• 虎符金牌
• 蛇符
• 詅痴符 / 𰵚痴符
• 譯音符號 / 译音符号
• 護官符 / 护官符
• 護符 / 护符 (hùfú)
• 護身符 / 护身符 (hùshēnfú)
• 赤伏符
• 軍符 / 军符
• 連音符 / 连音符
• 運算符號 / 运算符号
• 金牌虎符
• 釵頭符 / 钗头符
• 銅虎符 / 铜虎符
• 附點音符 / 附点音符 (fùdiǎnyīnfú)
• 陰符經 / 阴符经
• 陽陵虎符 / 阳陵虎符
• 隔音符號 / 隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)
• 靈符 / 灵符
• 音符 (yīnfú)
• 鬼畫桃符 / 鬼画桃符
• 鬼畫符 / 鬼画符 (guǐhuàfú)
• 魚符 / 鱼符

References

• “符”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

符

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぶ (bu)
• Kan-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
• Kun: わりふ (warifu, 符)

Compounds

• 切(きっ)符(ぷ) (kippu): ticket
• 符(ふ)号(ごう) (fugō): sign; mark; symbol
• 呪(じゅ)符(ふ) (jufu): written spells

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 符 (MC bju).

Hanja

符 (eumhun 부호 부 (buho bu))

1. hanja form^? of 부 (“mark, tally, symbol, charm, ID tag”)

Tày

Noun

符 (búa)

1. Nôm form of búa (“spell; charm”).

   吟符散對𱣨边法

   Gằm búa sán đuổi lồm vần phép

   The spells faded with the wind, casting a charm

References

• Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[2] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

Vietnamese

Han character

符: Hán Nôm readings: phù, bùa

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