漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
父: father
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Shang Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
フfu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 父母ふぼone's own father and mother
- 祖父そふone's own grandfather
- 義父ぎふfather-in-law
- 神父しんぷCatholic priest; abbe; reverend father
ちちchichi · kun'yomi · on its own
- 父ちちone's own father
- 父親ちちおやfather
Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.
- お父さんおとうさんfather [hon.]
- 叔父おじuncle
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
A hand holding a stone blade, referring to a man working with a stone axe.
Source: Wiktionary, 父 (rev. 93807524), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The base kanji for one's male parent, representing protection and ancestral authority.”
Connections
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · fù
Same form: 父 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 父 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 父 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin fù most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.