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拊

fǔ

Character

What 拊 means

1. pat

Words starting with 拊

• 拊掌fǔ zhǎngto clap hands
• 拊髀fǔ bìto slap one's own buttocks in excitement or despair

Characters built on 付

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

• 府fǔseat of government; government repository (archive); official residence
• 附fùto add; to attach; to be close to; to be attached
• 符fúmark; sign; talisman
• 咐fùused in 吩咐
• 驸fùprince consort
• 苻fúAngelica anomala
• 跗fūinstep; tarsus

Sounds the same

Read fǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 府seat of government; government repository (archive); official residence
• 腐decay; rotten
• 辅to assist; to complement; auxiliary
• 抚to comfort; to console; to stroke
• 俯to look down; to stoop
• 甫(classical) barely; just; just now
• 斧hatchet
• 釜kettle; cauldron
• 腑internal organs
• 脯dried meat; preserved fruit
• 呒perplexed; astonished
• 滏name of a river in Hebei