弗
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Translingual
Han character
弗 (radical 57, 弓+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 中中弓 (LLN), four-corner 55027, composition ⿻⿰丿丨弓)
References
- KangXi: page 356, character 16
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9708
- Dae Jaweon: page 673, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 990, character 9
- Unihan data for U+5F17
Chinese
simp. and trad. |
弗 |
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Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (弗) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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Old Chinese | |
鄪 | *prɯds |
費 | *prɯds, *pʰɯds, *bɯds |
砩 | *pads |
沸 | *pɯds |
疿 | *pɯds |
茀 | *pɯds, *pʰɯd |
髴 | *pʰɯds, *pɯd, *pʰɯd |
昲 | *pʰɯds |
靅 | *pʰɯds |
狒 | *buds |
怫 | *bɯds, *bɯd |
胇 | *brɯd |
艴 | *bɯːd, *pʰɯd |
弗 | *pɯd |
紼 | *pɯd |
柫 | *pɯd |
笰 | *pɯd |
拂 | *pʰɯd |
刜 | *pʰɯd, *bɯd |
彿 | *pʰɯd |
佛 | *bɯd |
坲 | *bɯd |
咈 | *bɯd |
炥 | *bɯd |
Pictogram (象形) – two arrows, tied together to be straightened.
Later borrowed phonetically to mean “no”. The derivative 拂 stands for the original word.
Etymology 1
- not (verb) him/her/it
- Fusion of 不 (OC *pɯ, *pɯʔ, *pɯ', “not”) with 之 (OC *tjɯ, “third-person pronoun”) (Schuessler, 2007).
See etymology of 不 for more.
Pronunciation
Definitions
弗
- (obsolete or dialectal) not.
- 一簞食,一豆羹,得之則生,弗得則死。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: Mencius, circa 4th century BCE
- Yī dān sì, yī dòu gēng, dé zhī zé shēng, fú dé zé sǐ. [Pinyin]
- Here are a small basket of rice and a platter of soup; getting them will enable survival, while not getting them will result in death.
一箪食,一豆羹,得之则生,弗得则死。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
Synonyms
Usage notes
Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 弗 – see 費 (“to cost; to spend; to expend; to consume; to use; to exhaust; etc.”). (This character, 弗, is the second-round simplified form of 費.) |
Notes:
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Japanese
Etymology 1

Kanji in this term |
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弗 |
ふつ Hyōgaiji |
on’yomi |
Originally borrowed from Middle Chinese 弗 (*pjut), meaning either “not” or “a gust of wind”. Apparently later repurposed during the later Edo period for its phonetic value in translating the Dutch fluor (“fluorine”).
Derived terms
- 弗化 (ふっか, fukka): fluoridation; fluoro-, fluor-; fluorinated
- 弗化カルシウム (ふっかカルシウム, fukka karushiumu): calcium fluoride, CaF2
- 六弗化リン酸リチウム (ろくふっかりんさんりちうむ, roku fukka rinsan richiumu): lithium hexafluorophosphate
- 弗化水素 (ふっかすいそ, fukka suiso): hydrogen fluoride, HF
- 弗化水素酸 (ふっかすいそさん, fukka suiso san): hydrofluoric acid
- 弗化物 (ふっかぶつ, fukkabutsu): fluoride
- 六弗化硫黄 (ろくふっかいおう, ろくふっかいおう): sulfur hexafluoride
- 弗酸 (ふっさん, fussan): short for 弗化水素酸 (fukka suiso san): hydrofluoric acid
- 弗素 (ふっそ, fusso): fluorine, F
Purely phonetic uses:
Usage notes
Seldom used. In chemistry contexts, almost always spelled in katakana as フツ, appearing in most compounds as フッ.
Etymology 2

Kanji in this term |
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弗 |
どる Hyōgaiji |
kun’yomi |
Repurposed for its visual similarity to the dollar symbol $. This reading is ultimately borrowed from Dutch dollar.[1][2]
Usage notes
Occasionally seen, but more often encountered in the katakana spelling of ドル.
See also
- 仙 (sento)
References
- 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
Korean
Hanja
Vietnamese
Han character
弗 (phất)
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