扶
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to support with the hand; to help sb up; to support oneself by holding onto something; to help
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 手 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 扶
- Common rank
- #1,396
- Unicode
- U+6276
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
lend a hand · Heisig RSH #1978
fingers + 夫 husband
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 扶
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 扶不起的阿斗 | weak and inept person; hopeless case | |
| 扶风县 | Fufeng, a county in Baoji City 寶雞市|宝鸡市[Bao3 ji1 Shi4], Shaanxi | |
| 扶余市 | Fuyu, a county-level city in Songyuan City 松原市[Song1 yuan2 Shi4], Jilin | |
| 扶手 | handrail; armrest | |
| 扶风 | see 扶風縣|扶风县[Fu2 feng1 Xian4] | |
| 扶摇直上 | to skyrocket; to get quick promotion in one's career | |
| 扶南 | Funan, ancient state in Southeast Asia (1st - 6th century) | |
| 扶清灭洋 | Support the Qing, annihilate the West! (Boxer rebellion slogan) | |
| 救死扶伤 | to help the dying and heal the injured | |
| 自动扶梯 | escalator | |
| 烂泥扶不上墙 | useless (idiom); worthless; inept | |
| 扶正 | to set sth upright or straight; to promote an employee from part-time to full-time (or fro… | |
| 扶轮社 | Rotary Club | |
| 扶他林 | voltaren, a trade name for diclofenac sodium, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug used … | |
| 扶正压邪 | to uphold good and suppress evil (idiom) | |
| 扶沟县 | Fugou, a county in Zhoukou City 周口市[Zhou1 kou3 Shi4], Henan | |
| 扶养 | to foster; to bring up; to raise | |
| 电扶梯 | escalator | |
| 扶余 | Buyeo (c. 200 BC–494 AD), ancient kingdom in what is now northeast China; see 扶餘市|扶余市[Fu2 … | |
| 牡丹虽好，全凭绿叶扶持 | Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom)… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 夫 — compare how they read.