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mark; sign; talisman; to seal; to correspond to; tally; symbol; written charm; to coincide

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Formation & memory

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

⺮ meaning “bamboo” + 付 sound ( fù )

Components ⺮付

symbol · Heisig RSH #2099

竹 bamboo + 付 pay

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
言行不符	yán xíng bù fú	(idiom) to say one thing and do another
通用字符集	tōng yòng zì fú jí	universal character set UCS
二分音符	èr fēn yīn fú	minim (music)
名不符实	míng bù fú shí	the name does not correspond to reality (idiom); it doesn't live up to its reputation
国语注音符号第一式	Guó yǔ zhù yīn fú hào dì yī shì	Mandarin Phonetic Symbols 1 (official name of the phonetic system of writing Chinese used …
转义字符	zhuǎn yì zì fú	(computing) escape character
四分音符	sì fēn yīn fú	crotchet (music)
统一资源定位符	tǒng yī zī yuán dìng wèi fú	universal resource locator (URL), i.e. webaddress
角分符号	jiǎo fēn fú hào	prime symbol (′) (math., linguistics etc)
八分音符	bā fēn yīn fú	quaver; eighth note
光学字符识别	guāng xué zì fú shí bié	optical character recognition (OCR)
不相符	bù xiāng fú	not in harmony
非拉丁字符	fēi Lā dīng zì fú	non-Latin characters
分音符	fēn yīn fú	dieresis; umlaut; diacritical mark separating two adjacent syllables
连字符号	lián zì fú hào	hyphen
标点符号	biāo diǎn fú hào	punctuation; a punctuation mark
符号学	fú hào xué	semiotics; semiology
无符号	wú fú hào	(computing) unsigned (having no sign bit and representing only non-negative values)
回车符	huí chē fú	(computing) "carriage return" character (ASCII code 13)
护身符子	hù shēn fú zi	amulet; protective talisman; charm

Characters sharing the sound component 付 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
付 sound part	fù	give, deliver, pay, hand over; entrust
府	fǔ	prefect; prefecture, government
附	fù	nearby; to adhere to, to attach; to rely on
腐	fǔ	to spoil, to rot, to decay; rotten
咐	fù	to instruct; to order
拊	fǔ	to pat, to slap, to tap; the handle of a vessel
鲋	fù	carp; Carassicus auratus
苻	fú	a kind of herb; Angelica anomala
跗	fū	arch, instep
驸	fù	extra horse; imperial son-in-law