# 敷

| 敷 | U+6577, &#25975; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6577 |
| ← 敶 [U+6576] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 數 → [U+6578] |

## Translingual
### Han character

敷 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 戈尸人大 (ISOK), four-corner 5824$_0$, composition ⿰旉攵)

#### Derived characters

* 㩤 璷 懯 𭋝 𡣷 𣞒 𭭺 𥼼 𦇁 𬵶 𡫣 𧀮

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 474, character 53
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13359
* Dae Jaweon: page 829, character 3
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1473, character 7
* Unihan data for U+6577

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 敷 | *pʰa |
| 璷 | *ɦb·ra |
Variant form of 𢾭. Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pʰa) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): phonetic 尃 (OC *pʰa, “distribute”) + semantic 攵 (“hand with whip; action”). The bottom left 寸 has been replaced with 方.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): fū (fu$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): fu$^1$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): fû
    (Meixian, Guangdong): fu$^1$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): pho͘ / hu
    (Teochew, Peng'im): hu$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: fū
*** Zhuyin: ㄈㄨ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: fu
*** Wade–Giles: fu$^1$
*** Yale: fū
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fu
*** Palladius: фу (fu)
*** Sinological IPA : /fu⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: fu$^1$
*** Yale: fū
*** Cantonese Pinyin: fu$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: fu$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /fuː⁵⁵/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fû
*** Hakka Romanization System: fu$^ˊ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: fu$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /fu²⁴/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: fu$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /fu⁴⁴/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pho͘
*** Tâi-lô: phoo
*** Phofsit Daibuun: phof
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰɔ⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰɔ³³/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hu
*** Tâi-lô: hu
*** Phofsit Daibuun: hw
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hu⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /hu³³/
* pho͘ - vernacular;
* hu - literary.
* Middle Chinese: phju
Rime :
| Character | 敷 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 滂 (2) |
| Final (韻) | 虞 (24) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 芳無切 |
| Baxter | phju |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /pʰɨo/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /pʰio/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /pʰio/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /pʰuə̆/ |
| Li Rong | /pʰio/ |
| Wang Li | /pʰĭu/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /pʰi̯u/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | fū |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | fu$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰ(r)a/
    (Zhengzhang): /*pʰa/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 敷 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | fū |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ phju › |
| Old Chinese | /*pʰ(r)a/ |
| English | spread widely |
| 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 | 敷 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 3279 |
| Phonetic component | 旉 |
| Rime group | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 敷 |
| Old Chinese | /*pʰa/ |

### Definitions

敷
* to spread; to diffuse
* to apply; to paint
* (literary) to elaborate; to state
* to be sufficient
* (～母) (Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of 敷 (MC phju)

### Compounds

* 不敷 (bùfū)
* 入不敷出 (rùbùfūchū)
* 冷敷 (lěngfū)
* 冷敷法
* 外敷
* 播敷
* 敷佑
* 敷化 (fūhuà)
* 敷告
* 敷土
* 敷天
* 敷奏
* 敷布 (fūbù)
* 敷張揚厲 / 敷张扬厉
* 敷彩泥塑
* 敷愉
* 敷掩
* 敷政
* 敷教 (fūjiào)
* 敷教明倫 / 敷教明伦
* 敷文
* 敷料 (fūliào)
* 敷施
* 敷暢 / 敷畅
* 敷榮 / 敷荣 (fūróng)
* 敷求
* 敷治
* 敷演 (fūyǎn)
* 敷粉
* 敷蓋物 / 敷盖物
* 敷藥 / 敷药 (fūyào)
* 敷衍 (fūyǎn)
* 敷衍了事 (fūyǎnliǎoshì)
* 敷衍塞責 / 敷衍塞责 (fūyǎnsèzé)
* 敷衍搪塞 (fūyǎntángsè)
* 敷衍故事
* 敷訓 / 敷训
* 敷設 / 敷设
* 敷陳 / 敷陈
* 敷章
* 熱敷 / 热敷 (rèfū)
* 羅敷 / 罗敷 (Luó Fū)
* 羅敷有夫 / 罗敷有夫
* 面如敷粉

## Japanese

| Shinjitai | 敷 |
| Kyūjitai | 敷󠄁 敷+&#xE0101; (Adobe-Japan1) |
| Kyūjitai | 敷󠄃 敷+&#xE0103; (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho) |
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### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)
* spread
* pave
* sit
* promulgate

#### Readings

* Go-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
* Kan-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
* Kun: しく (shiku, 敷く, Jōyō)、しき (shiki, 敷)、あまねし (amaneshi, 敷し)、のべる (noberu, 敷べる)
* Nanori: しき (shiki)、のぶ (nobu)、ひら (hira)

#### Compounds

* お化(ば)け屋(や)敷(しき) (obakeyashiki, “haunted house”)
* 座(ざ)敷(しき) (zashiki, “Japanese-style tatami-floored room”)
* 座(ざ)敷(しき)牢(ろう) (zashikirō, “confinement room for criminals”)
* 座(ざ)敷(しき)童(わらし) (zashiki warashi, “red-faced child-yokai”)
* 敷(しき)居(い) (shikī, “threshold — bottom part of a doorway”)
* 敷(しき)瓦(がわら) (shikigawara)
* 敷(しき)田(た) (Shikita, A surname.)
* 敷(しき)地(ち) (shikichi, “site, premises”)
* 敷(しき)引(び)き (shikibiki)
* 敷(しき)布(ふ) (shikifu, “bedsheet”)
* 風(ふ)呂(ろ)敷(しき) (furoshiki, “type of Japanese wrapping cloth; furoshiki”)
* 本(もと)屋(や)敷(しき) (Motoyashiki, A surname.)
* 屋(や)敷(しき) (yashiki, “estate, grounds”)
* 屋(や)敷(しき) (Yashiki, A surname.)
* 幽(ゆう)霊(れい)屋(や)敷(しき) (yūrei yashiki, “haunted house”)
* 敷(ふ)衍(えん) (fuen, “amplification, elaboration”)
** 敷(ふ)延(えん) (fuen, alternative form of the above)
* 敷(ふ)設(せつ) (fusetsu, “construction”)

### References

* ↑ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 1020 (paper), page 561 (digital)

## Korean
### Hanja

敷 • (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune–Reischauer pu, Yale pu)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

敷: Hán Nôm readings: phô, phu
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