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稃

fū

Character

What 稃 means

1. husk
2. outside shell of grain

Words containing 稃

• 内稃nèi fū(botany) palea
• 外稃wài fū(botany) lemma
• 熬稃áo fū(old) popped glutinous rice (term used during the Song dynasty)
• 麦稃mài fūbarley husk

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
• 俘fúto take prisoner; prisoner of war
• 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
• 郛fúsuburbs

Sounds the same

Read fū, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 夫husband; man; manual worker
• 肤skin
• 敷to spread; to lay out; to apply (powder, ointment etc)
• 孵breeding; to incubate; to hatch
• 麸bran
• 砆agate; inferior gem; a kind of jade
• 呋used in transliteration, e.g. 呋喃; old variant of 趺
• 衭the lapel of a garment
• 泭a raft
• 趺instep; tarsus
• 跗instep; tarsus
• 玞a kind of jade