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幅

fú

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 character level 4 Character

幅 (fú) means "measure word for paintings/pictures/cloth width". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 幅 means

1. width
2. roll
3. classifier for textiles or pictures

Example sentences

• 哪幅画大？
  Which painting is bigger?
• 哪幅画小？
  Which painting is small?
• 请看这幅图。
  Look at this picture.
• 哪幅画漂亮？
  Which painting is beautiful?
• 这是一幅地图。
  This is a map.
• 墙上有一幅画。
  There is a picture on the wall.

Words starting with 幅

• 幅度fú dùwidth; extent; range
• 幅员fú yuánsize (i.e. area) of a country, geographical region or school campus etc; (fig.) scope…

Words containing 幅

• 大幅dà fúlarge-format (picture, banner, photo etc); substantially; by a wide margin
• 大幅度dà fú dùsubstantially; by a wide margin
• 横幅héng fúhorizontal scroll; banner; streamer
• 篇幅piān fulength (of a piece of writing); space occupied on a printed page
• 涨幅zhǎng fúextent of a rise (in prices etc); amount of increase…
• 增幅zēng fúgrowth rate; amplification
• 条幅tiáo fúwall scroll (for painting or calligraphy); banner
• 巨幅jù fúextremely large (of paintings, photographs etc)
• 跌幅diē fúdecline (in value); extent of a drop
• 小幅xiǎo fúby a small margin; slightly (increase or decrease)…
• 降幅jiàng fúdegree of reduction (in prices, numbers etc); decline; drop
• 不修边幅bù xiū biān fúnot care about one's appearance (idiom); slovenly in dress and manner
• 升幅shēng fúextent of an increase; percentage rise
• 波幅bō fúamplitude
• 减幅jiǎn fúamount of reduction; extent of decline; size of discount
• 画幅huà fúpainting; picture; dimension of a painting
• 直幅zhí fúvertical scroll; (advertising) vertical banner
• 调幅tiáo fúamplitude modulation (AM); size of an adjustment
• 边幅biān fúfringes of cloth; (fig.) one's dress; one's appearance
• 广告条幅guǎng gào tiáo fúbanner advertisement
• 条幅广告tiáo fú guǎng gàobanner advertisement
• 振幅zhèn fúamplitude
• 旗幅qí fúbanner; width of a flag
• 横幅标语héng fú biāo yǔslogan banner

Characters built on 畐

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

• 富fùrich; abundant; wealthy
• 福fúgood fortune; happiness; luck
• 副fùsecondary; auxiliary; deputy
• 辐fúspoke of a wheel
• 蝠fú(bound form) bat
• 匐fúused in 匍匐

Characters that look like 幅

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

• 接jiēto receive; to answer (the phone); to meet or welcome sb
• 描miáoto depict; to trace (a drawing); to copy
• 插chāto insert; stick in; pierce
• 惬qiè(literary) satisfied; content
• 谧mì(literary) quiet; peaceful; tranquil
• 楂cháfell trees; raft; to hew

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
• 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
• 俘to take prisoner; prisoner of war
• 袱(bound form) a cloth used to wrap or cover
• 弗(literary) not; used in transliteration
• 芙used in 芙蓉

Where 幅 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Inclusion, Components & Structure (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read fú correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.