父

fù
#589 most
frequent character
father

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

父 is a picture of a hand gripping an object, perhaps a rod. The rod suggests the father as the one who disciplines the family, giving the first meaning “father”. Later it also came to mean an old man.

Drawn as: hand holding object; rod

父 as a component in other characters

meaning3 characters
爷爸爹
sound2 characters
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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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