符

Translingual

Han character

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

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

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Chinese

trad.		符
simp. #		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／形声, OC *bo) : semantic ⺮ (“bamboo”) + phonetic 付 (OC *pos).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 符

1. (historical) tally
2. symbol; sign

   符號／符号  ―  fúhào  ―  symbol

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

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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

• 切符(きっぷ) (kippu): ticket
• 符号(ふごう) (fugō): sign; mark; symbol
• 呪符(じゅふ) (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

(deprecated template usage) 符 (phù, bùa)

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