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外敷

wài fū

2-character word

What 外敷 means

1. to apply externally

The characters in 外敷

• 外wàioutside; in addition; foreign
• 敷fūto spread; to lay out; to apply (powder, ointment etc)

Sounds the same

Read wài fū, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 外稃(botany) lemma

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