Chinese Character Wiki

撫

fǔ

pat

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 無 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

無 sound component

無  Sound component

wú

  

negative

Evolution

撫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
撫 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
撫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

抚 (撫) 

fǔ

pat, console, comfort; pacify; to comfort; to console; to stroke; to caress; an old term for province or provincial governor

Most common words with 撫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

抚养

to foster

抚摸

to pet

抚

to comfort

安抚

to placate

抚慰

to console

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[pʰ](r)aʔ

phjuX

fǔ

lay the hand on


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.6793% of movies

1828th most common character in movies

1720th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

抚

Unicode

U+64AB

Shuowen

“撫，安也。从手，無聲。一曰循也。，古文从辵、亡。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License