俯

See also: 頫

俯	U+4FEF, 俯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4FEF

← 修
[U+4FEE]

CJK Unified Ideographs

俰 →
[U+4FF0]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

俯 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人戈人戈 (OIOI), four-corner 2024₀, composition ⿰亻府)

References edit

Kangxi Dictionary: page 106, character 6
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 722
Dae Jaweon: page 226, character 1
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 182, character 9
Unihan data for U+4FEF

Chinese edit

simp. and trad.		俯
alternative forms		俛頫／𫖯

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character 俯

**Transcribed ancient scripts**
L14939	L14935	L14936	L14937	L14938

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

	Old Chinese
鉜	*bu
跗	po, bos
柎	*po
腑	*poʔ
俯	*poʔ
府	*poʔ
付	*pos
咐	*pos
怤	*pʰo
泭	pʰo, bo
姇	*pʰo
紨	*pʰo
拊	*pʰoʔ
弣	*pʰoʔ
符	*bo
苻	*bo
坿	bo, bos
腐	*boʔ
附	*bos
駙	*bos
鮒	*bos
袝	*bos
蚹	*bos
胕	*bos

In bronze inscriptions, phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *poʔ) : phonetic 府 (OC *poʔ) + semantic 勹 (“person bending over”). In the modern script 勹 has changed to 亻.

Pronunciation edit

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fǔ (fu³)

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fu²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hú

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fǔ
  - Wade–Giles: fu³
  - Yale: fǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuu
  - Palladius: фу (fu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: fu²
  - Yale: fú
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fu²
  - Guangdong Romanization: fu²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hú
  - Tâi-lô: hú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: huo
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hu⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hu⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hu⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hu⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hu⁴¹/

Middle Chinese: pjuX

Rime
Character	俯
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	方矩切
Baxter	pjuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pɨo^X/
Pan Wuyun	/pio^X/
Shao Rongfen	/pio^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puə̆^X/
Li Rong	/pio^X/
Wang Li	/pĭu^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯u^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu²