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Mythic Mandarin

父 (fù): meaning and stroke order

父 (fù) means father.

父

Simplified
父
Traditional
父 (same form)
Pinyin
fù

Stroke order of 父

父

  • fù father
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 父

  1. fù
    • father

Radical and structure

父
Radical 父 (Kangxi radical 88) · 4 strokes · 八 on top, 乂 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 父

父 in our stories

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  • 祝父已经把女儿许配给了有钱的马家。两人在楼台上相会,相对流泪,却无能为力。

    zhù fù yǐjīng bǎ nǚ'ér xǔpèi gěi le yǒuqián de mǎ jiā liǎng rén zài lóutái shàng xiānghuì xiāngduì liúlèi què wúnéngwéilì

    Her father had already betrothed her to the wealthy Ma family. The two met on a terrace and wept facing each other, but could do nothing.

    From the story The Butterfly Lovers HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 七百多年前的南宋,有一位叫宋慈的官员,一生审理过无数案件,被后人称为“法医学之父”。

    qībǎi duō nián qián de Nán Sòng yǒu yí wèi jiào Sòng Cí de guānyuán yìshēng shěnlǐ guò wúshù ànjiàn bèi hòurén chēngwéi fǎyīxué zhī fù

    Over seven hundred years ago, in the Southern Song, there was an official named Song Ci who handled countless cases in his life and was later called the father of forensic medicine.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 父

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).