辅

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to assist; to complement; auxiliary

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Formation & memory

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

车 meaning “cart” + 甫 sound ( fǔ )

Components 车甫

supplement · Heisig RSH #1380

cart + dog tag

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
基辅罗斯	Jī fǔ Luó sī	Kievan Rus', East Slavic state that reached its peak in the early to mid-11th century
相辅相成	xiāng fǔ xiāng chéng	(idiom) to complement one another
电脑辅助工程	diàn nǎo fǔ zhù gōng chéng	computer-aided engineering
辅仁大学	Fǔ rén Dà xué	Fu Jen Catholic University of Peking (from 1925), forerunner of Beijing Normal University …
计算机辅助设计	jì suàn jī fǔ zhù shè jì	CAD computer-aided design
电脑辅助设计	diàn nǎo fǔ zhù shè jì	computer-aided design
辅导人	fǔ dǎo rén	tutor
辅导金	fǔ dǎo jīn	grant (Tw)
辅导员	fǔ dǎo yuán	student counselor (in Chinese universities)
电脑辅助设计与绘图	diàn nǎo fǔ zhù shè jì yǔ huì tú	computer-aided design and drawing
辅助语	fǔ zhù yǔ	auxiliary language
辅大	Fǔ Dà	abbr. for 輔仁大學\|辅仁大学[Fu3 ren2 Da4 xue2]
辅导班	fǔ dǎo bān	tutorial class; remedial class; preparatory course
辅音	fǔ yīn	consonant
基辅	Jī fǔ	Kyiv or Kiev, capital of Ukraine
教辅	jiào fǔ	supplementary educational material (e.g. a practice workbook, exam preparation guide etc)
辅以	fǔ yǐ	supplemented by; accompanied by; with
辅食	fǔ shí	complementary food (for an infant)
辅系	fǔ xì	(Tw) (university education) minor
辅助医疗	fǔ zhù yī liáo	complementary medicine

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

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
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
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