敷

敷	U+6577, 敷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6577

← 敶
[U+6576]

CJK Unified Ideographs

數 →
[U+6578]

Translingual

Han character

敷 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 戈尸人大 (ISOK), four-corner 5824₀, composition ⿰旉攵)

Derived characters

㩤璷懯𭋝𡣷𣞒𭭺𥼼𦇁𬵶𡫣𧀮

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 474, character 53
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13359
Dae Jaweon: page 829, character 3
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1473, character 7
Unihan data for U+6577

Chinese

trad.		敷
simp. ^#		敷
2nd round simp.		𪯈
alternative forms		旉尃𢾭傅 "to apply, spread; to state"

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (旉) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
敷	*pʰa
璷	*ɦb·ra

Variant form of 𢾭. Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pʰa) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): phonetic 尃 (OC *pʰa, “distribute”) + semantic 攵 (“hand with whip; action”). The bottom left 寸 has been replaced with 方.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fū (fu¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄨ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fu¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): fû

(Meixian, Guangdong): fu¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): pho͘ / hu

(Teochew, Peng'im): hu¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fū
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄨ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fu
  - Wade–Giles: fu¹
  - Yale: fū
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fu
  - Palladius: фу (fu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: fu¹
  - Yale: fū
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fu¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: fu¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fû
  - Hakka Romanization System: fu^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: fu¹
  - Sinological IPA: /fu²⁴/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: fu¹
  - Sinological IPA: /fu⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pho͘
  - Tâi-lô: phoo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: phof
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰɔ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰɔ³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hu
  - Tâi-lô: hu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hw
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hu⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hu³³/

Note:

pho͘ - vernacular;
hu - literary.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: hu¹
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hu
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /hu³³/

Middle Chinese: phju

Rime
Character	敷
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	芳無切
Baxter	phju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰio/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰuə̆/
Li Rong	/pʰio/
Wang Li	/pʰĭu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pʰi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰ(r)a/

(Zhengzhang): /*pʰa/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	敷
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fū
Middle Chinese	‹ phju ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰ(r)a/
English	spread widely
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	敷
Reading #	1/1
No.	3279
Phonetic component	旉
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*pʰa/

Definitions

敷

to spread; to diffuse
to apply; to paint
(literary) to elaborate; to state
to be sufficient
(～母) (Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of 敷 (MC phju)

Compounds

不敷 (bùfū)
入不敷出 (rùbùfūchū)
冷敷 (lěngfū)
冷敷法
外敷
播敷
敷佑
敷化 (fūhuà)
敷告
敷土
敷天
敷奏
敷布 (fūbù)
敷張揚厲 / 敷张扬厉
敷彩泥塑
敷愉
敷掩
敷政
敷教 (fūjiào)
敷教明倫 / 敷教明伦
敷文
敷料 (fūliào)
敷施
敷暢 / 敷畅
敷榮 / 敷荣 (fūróng)
敷求
敷治
敷演 (fūyǎn)
敷粉
敷蓋物 / 敷盖物
敷藥 / 敷药 (fūyào)
敷衍 (fūyǎn)
敷衍了事 (fūyǎnliǎoshì)
敷衍塞責 / 敷衍塞责 (fūyǎnsèzé)
敷衍搪塞 (fūyǎntángsè)
敷衍故事
敷訓 / 敷训
敷設 / 敷设
敷陳 / 敷陈
敷章
熱敷 / 热敷 (rèfū)
羅敷 / 罗敷 (Luó Fū)
羅敷有夫 / 罗敷有夫
面如敷粉

Japanese

Shinjitai	敷
Kyūjitai ^[1]	敷󠄁 敷+`󠄁`^? (Adobe-Japan1)
	敷󠄃 敷+`󠄃`^? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

敷

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

Go-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
Kan-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
Kun: しく (shiku, 敷く, Jōyō)、しき (shiki, 敷)、あまねし (amaneshi, 敷し)、のべる (noberu, 敷べる)
Nanori: しき (shiki)、のぶ (nobu)、ひら (hira)

Compounds

お化(ば)け屋(や)敷(しき) (obakeyashiki, “haunted house”)
座(ざ)敷(しき) (zashiki, “Japanese-style tatami-floored room”)
座(ざ)敷(しき)牢(ろう) (zashikirō, “confinement room for criminals”)
座(ざ)敷(しき)童(わらし) (zashiki warashi, “red-faced child-yokai”)
敷(しき)居(い) (shikī, “threshold — bottom part of a doorway”)
敷(しき)瓦(がわら) (shikigawara)
敷(しき)田(た) (Shikita, A surname.)
敷(しき)地(ち) (shikichi, “site, premises”)
敷(しき)引(び)き (shikibiki)
敷(しき)布(ふ) (shikifu, “bedsheet”)
風(ふ)呂(ろ)敷(しき) (furoshiki, “type of Japanese wrapping cloth; furoshiki”)
本(もと)屋(や)敷(しき) (Motoyashiki, A surname.)
屋(や)敷(しき) (yashiki, “estate, grounds”)
屋(や)敷(しき) (Yashiki, A surname.)
幽(ゆう)霊(れい)屋(や)敷(しき) (yūrei yashiki, “haunted house”)
敷(ふ)衍(えん) (fuen, “amplification, elaboration”)
- 敷(ふ)延(えん) (fuen, alternative form of the above)
敷(ふ)設(せつ) (fusetsu, “construction”)

References

^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 1020 (paper), page 561 (digital)

Korean

Hanja

敷 • (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune–Reischauer pu, Yale pu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

敷: Hán Nôm readings: phô, phu

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[1] Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 1020 (paper), page 561 (digital)

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