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赴

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to go; to visit (e.g. another country); to attend (a banquet etc)

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Old HSK
Level 6
Strokes
9
Radical
走 +2
Structure
Lower-left enclosure 左下包
Traditional
赴
Common rank
#2,057
Unicode
U+8D74

Sound it out + =

Formation & memory

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How 赴 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

走 meaning “walk” + 卜 sound ( bǔ )

Components 走 卜

How to remember it

go to · Heisig RSH #1671

走 walk + divining rod

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 赴

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

WordPinyinMeaning
反美是工作赴美是生活 fǎn Měi shì gōng zuò fù Měi shì shēng huó being anti-American is the job, but life is in America (jocular comment made about public …
全力以赴 quán lì yǐ fù (idiom) to make an all-out effort
单刀赴会 dān dāo fù huì lit. to go among enemies with only one's sword (idiom); fig. to go alone into enemy lines
走马赴任 zǒu mǎ fù rèn see 走馬上任|走马上任[zou3 ma3 shang4 ren4]
命赴黄泉 mìng fù Huáng quán to visit the Yellow Springs; to die
违利赴名 wéi lì fù míng to renounce profit and seek fame (idiom); to abandon greed for reputation; to choose fame …
前赴后继 qián fù hòu jì to advance dauntlessly in wave upon wave (idiom)
赴会 fù huì to go to a meeting
分赴 fēn fù to go separately to different places (esp. to carry out assigned tasks)
开赴 kāi fù (of troops) to depart for; to head for
赴台 fù Tái to visit Taiwan
赴美 fù Měi to go to the United States
赴死 fù sǐ to meet death
调赴 diào fù to dispatch (troops to the front)
赴华 fù Huá to visit China
赴约 fù yuē to keep an appointment
远赴 yuǎn fù to travel to (a distant place)
共赴 gòng fù joint participation; to go together
亲赴 qīn fù to travel to (a place where duty calls)
赴任 fù rèn to travel to take up a new post

Sound family

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

CharacterPinyinMeaning
卜 sound part bǔ divination, fortune-telling; prophecy
补 bǔ to fix, to mend, to patch, to restore
扑 pū to attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
朴 pǔ plain, simple; sincere; surname
仆 pú to fall forward; prostrate, prone; servant
讣 fù obituary, death notice
钋 pō polonium