覆 · fù
cover; tip over; return; reply
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
cover; tip over; return; reply
- Mandarin
- fù
- Cantonese
- fuk1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 覆 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
フク おおう くつがえす くつがえる おおいKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 복
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+8986
- Radical
- 襾 · 146
- Strokes
- 18 · Unihan
- Residual
- 12
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
18 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 覆
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- phjuwH · 敷救 反切 · #3043
- Middle Chinese
- bjuwH · 扶富 反切 · #3053
- Middle Chinese
- phjuwk · 芳福 反切 · #3219
- Middle Chinese
- phok · 匹北 反切 · #3741
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 15814 · phjuwH = 流開三去尤滂 · bjuwH = 流開三去尤並 · phjuwk = 通開三入東滂 · phok = 曾開一入登滂
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- fù
- kCantonese
- fuk1
- kDefinition
- cover; tip over; return; reply
- kTotalStrokes
- 18
- kRSUnicode
- 146.12
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+8986
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+590D U+8986
- kGradeLevel
- 5
- kTGH
- 2013:3440
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- fù 42808.090
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- fù 0345.010
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- fù 103.170
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- fù粵fuk1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 敷救 扶富 芳福 匹北
- Kangxi positions
- 1129.090
- Guangyun positions
- 435.49 436.50 457.45 531.05
- GSR references
- 1034m
- Cangjie
- MWHOE
- Four-corner
- 1024.7