俯

See also: 頫

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

← 修
[U+4FEE]

CJK Unified Ideographs

俰 →
[U+4FF0]

Translingual

Han character

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

References

KangXi: page 106, character 6

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 722

Dae Jaweon: page 226, character 1

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 182, character 9

Unihan data for U+4FEF

Chinese

simp. and trad.		俯

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fǔ (fu³)

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fu²
Min Nan (POJ): hú

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: fǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˇ
  - Wade–Giles: fu³
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuu
  - IPA ^(key): /fu²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: fu²
  - Yale: fú
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fu²
  - Guangdong Romanization: fu²
  - IPA ^(key): /fuː³⁵/
Min Nan
- (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: /pɨo^X/▼

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
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

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*poʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	俯
Reading #	1/1
No.	3510
Phonetic component	付
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	甫
Old Chinese	/*poʔ/
Notes	訓讀同頫

Definitions

俯

to bow one's head
to bend down; to bow
to look from above; to overlook; to look down
(honorific) to deign

Compounds

仰事俯畜
仰觀俯察／仰观俯察
俯仰 (fǔyǎng)
俯仰之間／俯仰之间
俯仰無愧／俯仰无愧 (fǔyǎng wúkuì)
俯仰由人
俯伏 (fǔfú)
俯允
俯察
俯就 (fǔjiù)
俯念
俯思

俯拾
俯拾即是
俯拾皆是
俯拾青紫
俯看 (fǔkàn)
俯瞰 (fǔkàn)
俯臥／俯卧 (fǔwò)
俯臨／俯临
俯衝／俯冲 (fǔchōng)
俯視／俯视 (fǔshì)
俯觀／俯观
俯角 (fǔjiǎo)

俯身 (fǔshēn)
俯遂幽眇
俯首
俯首就縛／俯首就缚
俯首帖耳
俯首稱臣／俯首称臣
俯首聽命／俯首听命
俯首認罪／俯首认罪
前俯後仰／前俯后仰
憑山俯海／凭山俯海
與世俯仰／与世俯仰
蹲俯

Japanese

Kanji

俯

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

to bend down
to lie down

Readings

On (unclassified): ふ (fu)
Kun: ふす (fusu, 俯す); ふせる (fuseru, 俯せる); うつむく (utsumuku, 俯く); うつむき (utsumuki); うつむけ (utsumuke); うつぶく (utsubuku, 俯く); うつぶき (utsubuki); うつぶけ (utsubuke); うつぶし (utsubushi); うつぶせ (utsubuse, 俯せ)

Korean

Hanja

俯 • (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune–Reischauer pu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

俯 (phủ)

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References

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