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斧

fǔ

Character

What 斧 means

1. hatchet

Example sentences

• 他用斧头重重的斩了一下，那棵树就倒了下来。
  Tāyòng fǔtóu chóngchóng de zhǎn le yīxià, nà kē shù jiù dǎo le xiàlai.
  The tree was felled with one hard blow of his ax.

Words starting with 斧

• 斧头fǔ tóuax; hatchet
• 斧子fǔ ziaxe; hatchet
• 斧正fǔ zhèng(polite) please amend my writing
• 斧钺之诛fǔ yuè zhī zhūto die by battle-ax (idiom); to be executed
• 斧钺汤镬fǔ yuè tāng huòbattle-ax and boiling cauldron (idiom); facing torture and execution

Words containing 斧

• 大刀阔斧dà dāo kuò fǔbold and decisive
• 板斧bǎn fǔbroad axe
• 鬼斧神工guǐ fǔ shén gōngsupernaturally fine craft (idiom); the work of the Gods; uncanny workmanship…
• 宽斧kuān fǔbroadax; ax with a wide blade
• 战斧zhàn fǔbattle-ax
• 资斧zī fǔ(literary) money for a journey; travel expenses
• 刀斧手dāo fǔ shǒulictor
• 操斧伐柯cāo fǔ fá kē(cf Book of Songs) How to fashion an ax handle? You need an ax…
• 班门弄斧Bān mén nòng fǔto display one's slight skill before an expert (idiom)
• 神工鬼斧shén gōng guǐ fǔsupernaturally fine craft (idiom); the work of the Gods; uncanny workmanship…
• 镰刀斧头lián dāo fǔ tóuthe hammer and sickle (flag of USSR, symbolizing rural and proletarian labor)
• 不避斧钺bù bì fǔ yuènot trying to avoid the battle-ax (idiom); not afraid of dying in combat…
• 刀锯斧钺dāo jù fǔ yuèknife, saw, ax and hatchet (idiom); facing torture and execution

Characters that look like 斧

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

• 费fèito cost; to spend; fee
• 带dàiband; belt; girdle
• 券quànbond (esp. document split in two, with each party holding one half); contract…
• 芽yábud; sprout
• 秉bǐngto grasp; to hold; to maintain
• 荞qiáocommon mallow (Malva sinensis); variant of 荞

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
• 釜kettle; cauldron
• 腑internal organs
• 脯dried meat; preserved fruit
• 呒perplexed; astonished
• 拊pat
• 滏name of a river in Hebei