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符

fú

HSK 4 Character

What 符 means

1. mark
2. sign
3. talisman
4. to seal
5. to correspond to
6. tally
7. symbol
8. written charm
9. to coincide

Other readings

符 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Fúsurname Fu

Example sentences

• 那符合逻辑。
  Nà fúhé luóji.
  That's logical.
• 此人与描述相符。
  Cǐ rén yǔ miáoshù xiāngfú.
  The man corresponded to the description.
• 报告和事实不相符。
  Bàogào hé shìshí bù xiāngfú.
  This account does not agree with the facts.
• 这些数字总数不符。
  Zhèxiē shùzì zǒngshù bù fú.
  These figures don't add up.
• 汤姆所言不符时局。
  Tāngmǔ suǒ yán bù fú shíjú.
  What Tom said doesn't apply in this situation.
• 感叹号是标点符号。
  Gǎntànhào shì biāodiǎn fúhào.
  An exclamation mark is a punctuation mark.

Words starting with 符

• 符合fú héin accordance with; to agree with; to conform to; to meet (a requirement)…
• 符号fú hàosymbol; mark; sign
• 符印fú yìnsigil; talismanic mark or symbol; (ritual) seal
• 符文fú wénrune
• 符板fú bǎna charm to protect against evil spirits
• 符记fú jìtoken
• 符号学fú hào xuésemiotics; semiology
• 符记环fú jì huántoken ring (computing)
• 符类福音fú lèi fú yīnsynoptic gospels (i.e. Matthew, Mark and Luke, with similar accounts and chronology)
• 符牌fú páia talisman or lucky charm
• 符串fú chuànstring (as in "character string")
• 符腾堡Fú téng bǎoWürttemberg, region of southwest Germany, former state around Stuttgart 斯图加特
• 符咒fú zhòucharm; amulet (religious object conferring blessing)
• 符箓fú lù(Taoism) talisman in the form of a painting of symbols thought to have magical powers
• 符拉迪沃斯托克Fú lā dí wò sī tuō kèVladivostok (Russian port city, Chinese name: 海参崴

Words containing 符

• 字符zì fúcharacter (computing)
• 音符yīn fú(music) note; phonetic component of a Chinese character; phonetic symbol
• 不符bù fúinconsistent; not in agreement with; not agree or tally with
• 相符xiāng fúto match; to tally
• 护身符hù shēn fúamulet; protective talisman; charm
• 标点符号biāo diǎn fú hàopunctuation; a punctuation mark
• 形符xíng fúsemantic component of a phono-semantic character (e.g. component 刂
• 意符yì fúsemantic component of a phono-semantic character (e.g. component 刂
• 声符shēng fúphonetic component of a Chinese character (e.g. the component 青
• 不相符bù xiāng fúnot in harmony
• 分音符fēn yīn fúdieresis; umlaut; diacritical mark separating two adjacent syllables
• 分页符fēn yè fúpage break
• 助记符zhù jì fúmnemonic symbol; mnemonic code
• 占位符zhàn wèi fú(computing) placeholder
• 回车符huí chē fú(computing) "carriage return" character (ASCII code 13)
• 好运符hǎo yùn fúgood luck charm
• 字符集zì fú jícharacter set (e.g. ASCII 美国资讯交换标准码 or Unicode 统一码)
• 定界符dìng jiè fúdelimiter (computing)
• 指示符zhǐ shì fúindicator
• 无符号wú fú hào(computing) unsigned (having no sign bit and representing only non-negative values)
• 通配符tōng pèi fúwildcard character (computing)
• 连字符lián zì fúhyphen
• 连音符lián yīn fú(music) tuplet
• 名不符实míng bù fú shíthe name does not correspond to reality (idiom); it doesn't live up to its reputation

Characters built on 竹

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

• 筑zhùfive-string lute; Taiwan pr. zhú
• 簿bùa book; a register; account-book
• 笃dǔ(bound form) sincere; genuine; (bound form) (of an illness) serious
• 簇cù(bound form) to cluster; to pile up; cluster; pile…
• 箍gūhoop; to bind with hoops
• 竺Zhúsurname Zhu; abbr. for 天竺; (archaic) Buddhism
• 笏hù(old) ceremonial tablet (held by officials at an audience)
• 簌sùused in 簌簌

Characters that look like 符

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

• 得destructural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to…
• 移yíto move; to shift; to change
• 荷hélotus
• 筛shāi(bound form) a sieve; to sieve; to sift; to filter; to eliminate through selection
• 捍hànto ward off (a blow); to withstand; to defend
• 萍píngduckweed

Sounds the same

Read fú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 服clothes; dress; garment
• 福good fortune; happiness; luck
• 佛used in 仿佛
• 幅width; roll; classifier for textiles or pictures
• 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