芣

芣 · fú

medicinal plant

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Meanings & readings

Meaning & readings

Mandarin
fú
Cantonese
fau4
Definition source
Unihan kDefinition

medicinal plant

Dictionary definitions & readings

芣 fú · used in 芣苡 fú yǐ and 芣苢 fú yǐ; Taiwan pr. fóu

CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG · 2026-10-13 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Readings & dictionary references

HDZ · Mandarin readings and locators
53179.050:fú,fǒu,fū Source property ↗
XHC 1983 · Mandarin readings and locators
0336.030:fú Source property ↗
TGHZ 2013 · Mandarin readings and locators
100.050:fú Source property ↗
SMSZD 2003 · Mandarin and Cantonese
fú粵fau4 Source property ↗
Japanese · kana
フ ブ フウ Source property ↗
Korean · Hangul
부:1N Source property ↗
Vietnamese · Quốc ngữ
búp Source property ↗
Fanqie pairs
縛謀 Source property ↗
Cangjie input code
TMF Source property ↗
Four-corner lookup codes
4490.1 Source property ↗
Kangxi · dictionary positions
1019.260 Source property ↗
Song Ben Guang Yun · dictionary positions
211.19 Source property ↗
Grammata Serica Recensa · references
0999i Source property ↗

Form & structure

Writing & identity

Unicode
U+82A3
Radical
艸 · 140
Strokes
7
Residual strokes
4
Standard list
通用规范汉字表 · level 3 · #6570

Source record, not an individually reviewed etymological dossier.

Words & connections

Dictionary & examples

History & distinctions

Related forms

No simplified/traditional variant assertion retained.

Historical readings

Middle Chinese
bjuw · 縛謀 · 流開三平尤並 · #1015

PHONO-ML, source line 8066; CC BY 4.0. Source-generated reading categories, not modern pronunciation. Attribution & limitations.

Sources & reference

Evidence

Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3 · Official-list coverage

Exact Unihan properties
kCihaiT
1124.403
kDaeJaweon
1477.120
kGSR
0999i
kHanYu
53179.050
kIRGDaeJaweon
1477.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
53179.050
kIRGKangXi
1019.260
kKangXi
1019.260
kMorohashi
30710:E0102
kSBGY
211.19
kSMSZD2003Index
572.03
kCangjie
TMF
kFourCornerCode
4490.1
kMojiJoho
MJ021555 MJ021555:E0101 MJ021556:E0102
kPhonetic
1025
kUnihanCore2020
GHMT
kIICore
AT
kIRG_GSource
G3-6839
kIRG_HSource
HB1-AAE6
kIRG_JSource
J13-7A60
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-6D2D
kIRG_KSource
K1-6241
kIRG_TSource
T1-4F49
kIRG_VSource
V0-422F
kRSUnicode
140.4
kTotalStrokes
7
kBigFive
AAE6
kCCCII
227C42
kCNS1986
1-4F49
kCNS1992
1-4F49
kEACC
227C42
kGB3
7225
kJIS0213
1,90,64
kJis1
5531
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:6570
kTaiwanTelegraph
5350
kXerox
306:073
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+17065+140.3.4
kCantonese
fau4
kDefinition
medicinal plant
kFanqie
縛謀
kHangul
부:1N
kHanyuPinyin
53179.050:fú,fǒu,fū
kJapanese
フ ブ フウ
kJapaneseKun
SAKAN
kJapaneseOn
FUU BU FU
kKorean
PWU
kMandarin
fú
kSMSZD2003Readings
fú粵fau4
kTGHZ2013
100.050:fú
kVietnamese
búp
kXHC1983
0336.030:fú

Sentences in context

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Structure & connections

0.10
3dictionary records using 芣0forms using this shape1attributed sound links
⿱ Above / below

Shape description
艹 above 不 · the same shape in all seven regional standards (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Vietnam)
Source notation ^⿱艹不$(GHTJKPV)
BabelStone · 2025-06-27. Encoded shape and region tags; graphical analysis does not establish historical function.

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Retained descriptions & scope

^⿱艹不$(GHTJKPV)

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