符
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mark; sign; talisman; to seal; to correspond to; tally; symbol; written charm; to coincide
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,088 U+7B26
How 符 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
⺮ (semantic, “bamboo”) + 付 (phonetic, fù)
How to remember it
symbol · Heisig RSH #2099
竹 bamboo + 付 pay
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 付
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 付 (fù) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 付 sound component | fù | give, deliver, pay, hand over; entrust |
| 府 | fǔ | prefect; prefecture, government |
| 附 | fù | nearby; to adhere to, to attach; to rely on |
| 腐 | fǔ | to spoil, to rot, to decay; rotten |
| 咐 | fù | to instruct; to order |
| 拊 | fǔ | to pat, to slap, to tap; the handle of a vessel |
| 鲋 | fù | carp; Carassicus auratus |
| 苻 | fú | a kind of herb; Angelica anomala |
| 跗 | fū | arch, instep |
| 驸 | fù | extra horse; imperial son-in-law |
Words containing 符
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 言行不符 | yán xíng bù fú | (idiom) to say one thing and do another |
| 通用字符集 | tōng yòng zì fú jí | universal character set UCS |
| 二分音符 | èr fēn yīn fú | minim (music) |
| 名不符实 | míng bù fú shí | the name does not correspond to reality (idiom); it doesn't live up to its reputation |
| 国语注音符号第一式 | Guó yǔ zhù yīn fú hào dì yī shì | Mandarin Phonetic Symbols 1 (official name of the phonetic system of writing Chinese used … |
| 转义字符 | zhuǎn yì zì fú | (computing) escape character |
| 四分音符 | sì fēn yīn fú | crotchet (music) |
| 统一资源定位符 | tǒng yī zī yuán dìng wèi fú | universal resource locator (URL), i.e. webaddress |
| 角分符号 | jiǎo fēn fú hào | prime symbol (′) (math., linguistics etc) |
| 八分音符 | bā fēn yīn fú | quaver; eighth note |
| 光学字符识别 | guāng xué zì fú shí bié | optical character recognition (OCR) |
| 不相符 | bù xiāng fú | not in harmony |
| 非拉丁字符 | fēi Lā dīng zì fú | non-Latin characters |
| 分音符 | fēn yīn fú | dieresis; umlaut; diacritical mark separating two adjacent syllables |
| 连字符号 | lián zì fú hào | hyphen |
| 标点符号 | biāo diǎn fú hào | punctuation; a punctuation mark |
| 符号学 | fú hào xué | semiotics; semiology |
| 无符号 | wú fú hào | (computing) unsigned (having no sign bit and representing only non-negative values) |
| 回车符 | huí chē fú | (computing) "carriage return" character (ASCII code 13) |
| 护身符子 | hù shēn fú zi | amulet; protective talisman; charm |