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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
Fú | Fu2
English translation
surname Fu
mark
sign
talisman
to seal
to correspond to
tally
symbol
written charm
to coincide
amulet, charm; mark, tag; to correspond to

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Number of strokes

11

Traditional form

Contains the radical

zhú

Part of speech

Verb / 动词 dòng cí Dòngcí

Learning hint

bamboo

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

⺮付

Semantic compound

zhú

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. zhú represents the meaning and represents the sound.

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suàn O shì líng 算符.

The operator O is the null operator.

初始化 chū shǐ huà 自动 zìdòng zhù 字符串 zì fú chuàn 表格 biǎogé shí 发生 fāshēng le 错误 cuòwù .

An error occurred while initializing the auto caption string table.

yóu 字母表 zì mǔ biǎo A Zhōng de 符号 fúhào suǒ 组成 zǔchéng de 任何 rènhé yǒu qióng 序列 xù liè , bèi 称为 chēng wéi 符号串.

Any finite sequence of symbols from an alphabet A is called a string.

会阴部丘疹 qiū zhěn de 切片 qiē piàn 病理 bìng lǐ 变化 biànhuà , hán 管瘤相符 xiāng fú .

A biopsy revealed that the histological change was compatible with a syringoma.

破折号 pò zhé hào Lián 字符 zì fú shāo cháng diǎn .

The dash is longer than the hyphen.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
符合 fúhé in keeping with符合 fúhé
符号 fúhào symbol符號
相符 xiāng fú to match相符 xiāng fú
不符 bù fú inconsistent不符 bù fú
mark
音符 yīn fú (music) note音符 yīn fú
护身符 hù shēn fú amulet護身符
符咒 fú zhòu charm符咒 fú zhòu
字符 zì fú character (computing)字符 zì fú
标点符号 biāo diǎn fú hào punctuation標點符號
休止符 xiū zhǐ fú rest (music)休止符 xiū zhǐ fú
字符串 zì fú chuàn string (computer science)字符串 zì fú chuàn
符号学 fú hào xué semiotics符號學
灵符 líng fú a Daoist talisman靈符
符拉迪沃斯托克 Fú lā dí wò sī tuō kè Vladivostok (Russian port city)符拉迪沃斯托克 Fú lā dí wò sī tuō kè
鬼画符 guǐ huà fú scribblings鬼畫符
虎符 hǔ fú tiger tally (a two-piece object made in the shape of a tiger, used in ancient China as proof of authority. One half of a tally could be issued to a military officer and this would be matched with the other half when verification was required.)虎符 hǔ fú
名不符实 míng bù fú shí the name does not correspond to reality (idiom); it doesn't live up to its reputation名不符實
盘符 pán fú drive letter (letter assigned to a disk drive or partition) (computing)盤符

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Decomposition

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