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俘

fú

HSK 6 Character

What 俘 means

1. to take prisoner
2. prisoner of war

Words starting with 俘

• 俘虏fú lǔto take prisoner; a captive (usu. a prisoner of war)
• 俘获fú huòto capture (enemy property or personnel); capture…

Words containing 俘

• 战俘zhàn fúprisoner of war
• 伤俘shāng fúwounded and captured
• 捕俘bǔ fúto capture enemy personnel (for intelligence purposes)
• 中子俘获zhōng zǐ fú huòneutron capture

Characters built on 孚

These share the phonetic component 孚 (fú), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 乳rǔ(bound form) breast; (bound form) milk; (bound form) newborn; suckling
• 浮fúto float; superficial; floating
• 孵fūbreeding; to incubate; to hatch
• 蜉fúused in 蚍蜉; used in 蜉蝣
• 莩fúmembrane lining inside a cylindrical stem; culm
• 桴fúbeam; rafter
• 稃fūhusk; outside shell of grain
• 郛fúsuburbs

Characters that look like 俘

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 恨hènto hate; to regret
• 浮fúto float; superficial; floating
• 侈chǐextravagant; wasteful; exaggerating
• 俾bǐto cause; to enable; phonetic bi
• 晖huīsunshine; to shine upon; variant of 辉
• 佯yángto feign; to pretend

Sounds the same

Read fú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 服clothes; dress; garment
• 福good fortune; happiness; luck
• 符mark; sign; talisman
• 佛used in 仿佛
• 幅width; roll; classifier for textiles or pictures
• 扶to support with the hand; to help sb up; to support oneself by holding onto something
• 伏to lean over; to fall (go down); to hide (in ambush)
• 浮to float; superficial; floating
• 辐spoke of a wheel
• 袱(bound form) a cloth used to wrap or cover
• 弗(literary) not; used in transliteration
• 芙used in 芙蓉