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敷

敷

Translingual

Han character

敷 (radical 66 攴+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 戈尸人大 (ISOK), four-corner 58240, composition ⿰⿱甫方攵)

  1. spread, diffuse
  2. apply, paint

References

  • KangXi: page 474, character 53
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13359
  • Dae Jaweon: page 829, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1473, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+6577

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 敷

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (旉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
敷 *pʰa
璷 *ɦb·ra

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 敷
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 芳無切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pʰɨo/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pʰio/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pʰio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pʰuə̆/
Li
Rong		 /pʰio/
Wang
Li		 /pʰĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pʰi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fū
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 敷
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fū
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ phju ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰ(r)a/
English spread widely

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 敷
Reading # 1/1
No. 3279
Phonetic
component		 旉
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 敷
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰa/

Definitions

敷

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Compounds

  • 不敷
  • 入不敷出
  • 冷敷
  • 冷敷法
  • 外敷
  • 播敷
  • 敷佑
  • 敷化
  • 敷告
  • 敷土
  • 敷天
  • 敷奏
  • 敷布
  • 敷張揚厲／敷张扬厉
  • 敷彩泥塑
  • 敷愉
  • 敷掩
  • 敷政
  • 敷教
  • 敷教明倫／敷教明伦
  • 敷文
  • 敷料
  • 敷施
  • 敷暢／敷畅
  • 敷榮／敷荣
  • 敷求
  • 敷治
  • 敷演
  • 敷章
  • 敷粉
  • 敷蓋物／敷盖物
  • 敷藥／敷药
  • 敷衍 (fūyǎn)
  • 敷衍了事
  • 敷衍塞責／敷衍塞责
  • 敷衍搪塞
  • 敷衍故事
  • 敷訓／敷训
  • 敷設／敷设
  • 敷陳／敷陈
  • 熱敷／热敷
  • 羅敷／罗敷
  • 羅敷有夫／罗敷有夫
  • 面如敷粉

Japanese

Kanji

敷

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. spread
  2. pave
  3. sit
  4. promulgate

Readings

Korean

Hanja

敷 • ‎(bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune-Reischauer pu, Yale pu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

敷 (phô, phu)

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