Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food

符: token, sign

Also: mark, tally, charm

JLPT N211 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

竹 carries the meaning · 付 gives the sound

11 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

フfu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 疑問符ぎもんふquestion mark
  • 切符きっぷticket
  • 音符おんぷ(musical) note
  • 終止符しゅうしふperiod
  • 符号ふごうmark, code, symbol, sign
  • 八分音符はちぶおんぷ8th note; eighth note; quaver
  • 六十四分音符ろくじゅうしぶおんぷ64th note; hemidemisemiquaver

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Under the bamboo canopy! This radical brings the practicality and craftsmanship of bamboo to the head of many kanji.”
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
符 token · 付
vs等 etc. · 寺
符 has 付 where 等 has 寺.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · fú

Same form: 符 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
符 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
符 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin fú most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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