符

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

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		符

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, OC *bo): semantic ⺮ (“bamboo”) + phonetic 付 (OC *pos).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fú (fu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fù / phù
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): hû

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hu⁵

• Wu (Wiktionary): vu (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: fú
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
    • Wade–Giles: fu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
    • IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fu⁴
    • Yale: fùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /fuː²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fù / phù
    • Hakka Romanization System: fuˇ / puˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fu² / pu²
    • IPA: /fu¹¹/, /pʰu¹¹/

Note:

• fù - literary;
• phù - vernacular.

Min Nan

• (Hokkien)
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hû
  • Tâi-lô: hû
  • Phofsit Daibuun: huu
  • IPA (Xiamen): /hu²⁴/
  • IPA (Quanzhou): /hu²⁴/
  • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hu¹³/
  • IPA (Taipei): /hu²⁴/
  • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hu²³/
• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: hu⁵
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hû
  • IPA ^(key): /hu⁵⁵/

Wu

• (Shanghainese)
  • Wiktionary: vu (T3)
  • IPA ^(key): /v̻v̩ʷ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /bɨo/▼

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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/bio/
Shao Rongfen	/bio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buə̆/
Li Rong	/bio/
Wang Li	/bĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fú

• 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

Derived terms from 符

• 不符 (bùfú)
• 休止符 (xiūzhǐfú)
• 催命符
• 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
• 合符
• 名不符實／名不符实
• 名實相符／名实相符
• 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
• 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
• 相符 (xiāngfú)
• 神符
• 祥符
• 禎符／祯符
• 符兒／符儿
• 符冊／符册 (fúcè)
• 符印
• 符合 (fúhé)
• 符命
• 符咒
• 符契
• 符應／符应
• 符拔
• 符水 (fúshuǐ)
• 符瑞
• 符璽／符玺
• 符碼／符码
• 符節／符节
• 符節文／符节文
• 符篆
• 符籙／符箓
• 符號／符号 (fúhào)
• 符號邏輯／符号逻辑
• 符讖／符谶
• 符采
• 符驗／符验

• 聲符／声符
• 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
• 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
• 陰符經／阴符经
• 陽陵虎符／阳陵虎符
• 隔音符號／隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)
• 音符 (yīnfú)
• 鬼畫桃符／鬼画桃符
• 鬼畫符／鬼画符 (guǐhuàfú)
• 魚符／鱼符

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Japanese

Kanji

符

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: 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

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Korean

Hanja

符 • (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune–Reischauer pu, Yale pu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

符 (phù, bùa)

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