赋

賦
fù
#1,745 most
frequent character
poetic essay, taxation, to bestow on

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

赋 has 贝 shell money as the picture part and 武 wǔ for sound. It first meant taxation, then grew to levy and pay taxes, to bestow, to recite poetry, and a kind of rhyming prose.

Drawn as: shell money

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Homophones

HSK 4
富fù
rich, surname Fu
HSK 6
副fù
secondary, auxiliary, deputy
付fù
pay, commit, hand over
负fù
negative, load, loss, defeat, bear
附fù
to attach
赴fù
to go to

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