敷

敷 U+6577, 敷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6577 ← 敶 [U+6576] CJK Unified Ideographs 數 → [U+6578]

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 㩤 璷 懯 𭋝 𡣷 𣞒 𭭺 𥼼 𦇁 𬵶 𡫣 𧀮

References

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

Chinese

trad.		敷
simp. #		敷
2nd round simp.		𪯈
alternative forms		旉 尃 𢾭 傅

Glyph origen

Characters in the same phonetic series (旉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
敷	*pʰa
璷	*ɦb·ra

Variant form of 𢾭. Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pʰa) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : phonetic 尃 (OC *pʰa, “distribute”) + 攵 (“hand with whip; action”). The bottom left 寸 has been replaced with 方.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fū (fu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu¹
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): fû

  (Meixian, Guangdong): fu¹

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pho͘ / hu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fū
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fu
    • Wade–Giles: fu¹
    • Yale: fū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fu
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fu¹
    • Yale: fū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fû
    • Hakka Romanization System: fu^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fu¹
    • Sinological IPA: /fu²⁴/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: fu¹
    • Sinological IPA: /fu⁴⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pho͘
    • Tâi-lô: phoo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phof
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰɔ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰɔ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hu
    • Tâi-lô: hu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hw
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hu³³/

Note:

• pho͘ - vernacular;
• hu - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: hu¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hu
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hu³³/

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• Middle Chinese: phju

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
Baxter	phju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰio/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰuə̆/
Li Rong	/pʰio/
Wang Li	/pʰĭu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pʰi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰ(r)a/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰa/

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

1. to spread; to diffuse
2. to apply; to paint
3. (literary) to elaborate; to state
4. to be sufficient
5. (～母) (Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of 敷 (MC phju)

Compounds

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

 

Japanese

Shinjitai	敷
Kyūjitai	敷󠄁 敷+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	敷󠄃 敷+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

敷

(Jōyō kanji)

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

Readings

• Go-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
• Kun: しく (shiku, 敷く, Jōyō)、しき (shiki, 敷)、あまねし (amaneshi, 敷し)、のべる (noberu, 敷べる)
• Nanori: しき (shiki)、のぶ (nobu)、ひら (hira)

Compounds

Compounds

• お化(ば)け屋(や)敷(しき) (obakeyashiki, “haunted house”)
• 座(ざ)敷(しき) (zashiki, “Japanese-style tatami-floored room”)
• 座(ざ)敷(しき)牢(ろう) (zashikirō, “confinement room for criminals”)
• 座(ざ)敷(しき)童(わらし) (zashiki warashi, “red-faced child-yokai”)
• 敷(しき)居(い) (shikī, “threshold — bottom part of a doorway”)
• 敷(しき)瓦(がわら) (shikigawara)
• 敷(しき)田(た) (Shikita, A surname.)
• 敷(しき)地(ち) (shikichi, “site, premises”)
• 敷(しき)引(び)き (shikibiki)
• 敷(しき)布(ふ) (shikifu, “bedsheet”)
• 風(ふ)呂(ろ)敷(しき) (furoshiki, “type of Japanese wrapping cloth; furoshiki”)
• 本(もと)屋(や)敷(しき) (Motoyashiki, A surname.)
• 屋(や)敷(しき) (yashiki, “estate, grounds”)
• 屋(や)敷(しき) (Yashiki, A surname.)
• 幽(ゆう)霊(れい)屋(や)敷(しき) (yūrei yashiki, “haunted house”)
• 敷(ふ)衍(えん) (fuen, “amplification, elaboration”)
  • 敷(ふ)延(えん) (fuen, alternative form of the above)
• 敷(ふ)設(せつ) (fusetsu, “construction”)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

敷: Hán Nôm readings: phô, phu

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