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赴

fù

go to

Phonosemantic compound. 走 represents the meaning and 卜 represents the sound.

Components
走 meaning component

走  Meaning component

zǒu

  

walk

卜 sound component

卜  Sound component

bo, bǔ

  

fortune telling

Evolution

赴 Bronze script Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)

Bronze script

Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
赴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
赴 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
赴 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

赴  

fù

go to; attend, be present; to go; to visit (e.g. another country); to attend (a banquet etc)

Most common words with 赴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

赴

to go

全力以赴

to do at all costs

赶赴

to hurry

赴汤蹈火

to go through water and tread on fire (idiom); not afraid of any difficulty

赴约

to keep an appointment

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pʰ(r)ok-s

phjuH

fù

hasten to


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.9037% of movies

2326th most common character in movies

1843rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+8D74

Shuowen

“赴，趨也。从走，仆省聲。”


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