# 輔佐
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): fǔzuǒ
    (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˇ ㄗㄨㄛˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): fu$^6$ zo$^3$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hù-chò
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: fǔzuǒ [Phonetic: fúzuǒ]
*** Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˇ ㄗㄨㄛˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: fǔzuǒ
*** Wade–Giles: fu$^3$-tso$^3$
*** Yale: fǔ-dzwǒ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuutzuoo
*** Palladius: фуцзо (fuczo)
*** Sinological IPA : /fu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: fu$^6$ zo$^3$
*** Yale: fuh jo
*** Cantonese Pinyin: fu$^6$ dzo$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: fu$^6$ zo$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /fuː²² t͡sɔː³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hù-chò
*** Tâi-lô: hù-tsò
*** Phofsit Daibuun: huozoix
*** IPA (Xiamen): /hu²¹⁻⁵³ t͡so²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /hu⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ t͡so⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /hu²¹⁻⁵³ t͡so²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /hu¹¹⁻⁵³ t͡so¹¹/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /hu²¹⁻⁴¹ t͡sɤ²¹/
* Middle Chinese: bjuX tsaH
Rime :
| Character | 輔 | 佐 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) | 精 (13) |
| Final (韻) | 虞 (24) | 歌 (94) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Open |
| Division (等) | III | I |
| Fanqie | 扶雨切 | 則箇切 |
| Baxter | bjuX | tsaH |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /bɨo$^X$/ | /t͡sɑ$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /bio$^X$/ | /t͡sɑ$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /bio$^X$/ | /t͡sɑ$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /buə̆$^X$/ | /t͡sa$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /bio$^X$/ | /t͡sɑ$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /bĭu$^X$/ | /t͡sɑ$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /bʱi̯u$^X$/ | /t͡sɑ$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | fù | zuò |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | fu$^6$ | zo$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b](r)aʔ tsˤarʔ-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*baʔ ʔsaːls/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 輔 | 佐 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | fǔ | zuǒ |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ bju$^X$ › | ‹ tsa$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[b](r)aʔ/ | /*tsˁarʔ-s/ (dialect: *-r > *-j) |
| English | help | aid, assist |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. |||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 輔 | 佐 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| No. | 3470 | 18005 |
| Phonetic component | 甫 | 左 |
| Rime group | 魚 | 歌 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 父 | 佐 |
| Old Chinese | /*baʔ/ | /*ʔsaːls/ |

### Verb

輔佐
* (literary) to assist (especially a ruler in matters of governance)
    輔佐皇帝／辅佐皇帝 ― fǔzuǒ huángdì ― to assist an emperor

#### Synonyms

* (literary) 夾輔／夹辅 (jiāfǔ)

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: 補佐(ほさ) (hosa)
* → Korean: 보좌(輔佐) (bojwa)

## Japanese

Kanji in this term :
| 輔 | 佐 |
| ほ Jinmeiyō | さ Grade: 4 |
| on'yomi ||
For pronunciation and definitions of 輔佐 – see the following entry. :
| 【補佐ほさ】 | [noun] aid, assistance to someone in the course of their work [noun] an aide, some whose job is to assist another [verb] assist, offer counsel |
(This term, 輔佐, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :