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莩

fú

Character

What 莩 means

1. membrane lining inside a cylindrical stem
2. culm

Other readings

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

• piǎovariant of {殍|piǎo}

Words containing 莩

• 饿莩载道è piǎo zài dàostarved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine
• 饿莩遍野è piǎo biàn yěstarving people everywhere (idiom); a state of famine
• 饿莩è piǎovariant of 饿殍

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
• 桴fúbeam; rafter
• 稃fūhusk; outside shell of grain
• 郛fúsuburbs

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
• 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