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茀

Mandarin · pinyin fú

luxuriant growth

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茀: fú · overgrown with grass, weedy

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2 · fu2

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bat6 · but6 · fat1

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(literary) overgrown with grass; weedy
(literary) to weed
(literary) cart screen
(literary) alternative form of 福 (fú, “good fortune”)
(literary) alternative form of 髴 (fú, “head ornament worn by women”)
(literary) alternative form of 紼 /绋 (fú, “long cord guiding the hearse”)

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(literary) alternative form of 勃 (bó, “prosperous; furious”)

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(historical dictionaries only) only used in 蔽茀 (“small”)

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(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) comet

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