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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
fù | fu4
English translation
married woman; wife

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Number of strokes

11

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

Learning hint

A woman  with a broom  zhǒu

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

女帚

Explanation

Simplified form of . Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and zhǒu represents the sound. The zhǒu (broom) component may also be related to the meaning, since women were traditionally responsible for household chores.

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Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
妇女 fùnǚ woman婦女
夫妇 fūfù a (married) couple夫婦
孕妇 yùn fù pregnant woman孕婦
荡妇 dàng fù slut蕩婦
woman
主妇 zhǔ fù housewife主婦
寡妇 guǎ fu widow寡婦
媳妇 xífù daughter-in-law媳婦
情妇 qíng fù mistress情婦
妇人 fù rén married woman婦人
妇科 fù kē gynecology婦科
妇联 fù lián women's league婦聯
产妇 chǎn fù woman in childbirth產婦
妇产科 fù chǎn kē birth clinic婦產科
泼妇 pō fù shrew潑婦
妇幼 fù yòu women and children婦幼
少妇 shào fù young married woman少婦
儿媳妇 ér xí fu daughter-in-law兒媳婦
贵妇 guì fù lady (old)貴婦
慰安妇 wèi ān fù comfort woman慰安婦
家庭主妇 jiā tíng zhǔ fù housewife家庭主婦
媳妇儿 xí fu r wife媳婦兒
娼妇 chāng fù prostitute娼婦
农妇 nóng fù female farm worker農婦

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