The 甫 family
甫 · fǔ · ㄈㄨˇ — (classical) barely
Know 甫 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 捕、補、輔、鋪. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.
The characters
One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.
- 捕bǔ · ㄅㄨˇ部首 扌 提手旁 · handto catch; to seize; to capture66%
- 補bǔ · ㄅㄨˇ部首 衤 衣字旁 · clothesto repair; to patch66%
- 輔fǔ · ㄈㄨˇ部首 車 · carto assist; to complement88%
- 鋪pù · ㄆㄨˋ部首 金 · goldplank bed; place to sleep66%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 甫 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 甫 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 72%.
Words this family builds
- 逮捕
- 被捕
- 追捕
- 補償
- 補給
- 拘捕
- 補充
- 彌補
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