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甫

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(classical) barely; just; just now

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Strokes
7
Radical
用 +2
Structure
Overlaid 叠加
Traditional
甫
Common rank
#2,753
Unicode
U+752B

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Formation & memory

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How 甫 is formed

Components 十 用

How to remember it

Fu · Heisig RSH #1379

needle + flesh + a drop of — as a component also called: dog tag

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 甫

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
巴甫洛夫 Bā fǔ luò fū Pavlov (name); Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), Russian experimental psychologist
王实甫 Wáng Shí fǔ Wang Shifu (fl. 1295-1307), author of Romance of the West Chamber 西廂記|西厢记
李林甫 Lǐ Lín fǔ Li Linfu (-752), Tang politician, chancellor under Tang emperor Xuanzong 玄宗
玉素甫 Yù sù fǔ Yusuf, Arabic given name (Joseph)
杜甫草堂 Dù Fǔ Cǎo táng Du Fu's Thatched Cottage (park and museum in Chengdu)
惊魂甫定 jīng hún fǔ dìng to have just recovered from a shock
甫一 fǔ yī as soon as; immediately after
神甫 shén fu variant of 神父[shen2 fu5]
台甫 tái fǔ (polite) courtesy name
皇甫 Huáng fǔ two-character surname Huangfu
杜甫 Dù Fǔ Du Fu (712-770), great Tang dynasty poet
章甫荐履 zhāng fǔ jiàn lǚ court crown beneath straw shoe (idiom); everything turned upside down
皇甫嵩 Huáng fǔ Sōng Huangfu Song (-195), later Han general and warlord
辜振甫 Gū Zhèn fǔ Koo Chen-fu (1917-2005), Taiwanese businessman and diplomat
皇甫镈 Huáng fǔ Bó Huangfu Bo (c. 800), Minister during early Tang

Sound family

These characters use 甫 as their sound component — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
甫 sound part fǔ to begin; man, father; great; a distance of ten li
铺 pù shop, store; bed, mattress
浦 pǔ beach, shore, river bank; surname
捕 bǔ to arrest, to catch, to seize
辅 fǔ side road; to assist, to coach, to tutor
哺 bǔ to chew; to feed
埔 pǔ arena; market; plain; port
圃 pǔ garden, orchard, plot of farmland
脯 pú dried meat; preserved fruits
匍 pú to crawl; to lie prostrate
逋 bū to flee, to run away; to leave a debt unsettled
莆 pú a kind of legendary tree
乶 fǔ Pholha, a place in Korea
尃 fū to announce, to state
晡 bū late afternoon
黼 fǔ embroidered official or sacrificial robe