pay

Depicts a hand () giving payment to a person ().

Components
亻 iconic component

  Iconic component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

寸 iconic component

  Iconic component

cùn

  

(hand), inch

Depicts a hand.

Evolution

付 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
付 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
付 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
付 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

give, deliver, pay, hand over; entrust; to pay; to hand over to; classifier for pairs or sets of things

 

surname Fu

Most common words with 付
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to pay

付出

to pay

支付

to pay (money)

对付

to handle

应付

to cope

Component uses

Sound component in 10 characters (3 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*p(r)o-s

pjuH

give


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 66.2182% of movies

612th most common character in movies

820th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+4ED8

Shuowen

“付,與也。从寸,持物對人。”


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