fù
married women
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 帚 represents the sound. The 帚 (broom) component is also be related to the meaning, since women were traditionally responsible for household chores.
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Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mə.bəʔ (or *tsə.-? see Min) | bjuwX | fù | woman, wife |
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 30.7865% of movies
1112th most common character in movies
932nd most common character in books
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5A66 |
Shuowen | “婦,服也。从女持帚,灑掃也。” |