弗

(literary) not; used in transliteration

5 strokes Dict coverage rank #1,336 U+5F17

Ideographic compound (会意字)

Two arrows 丨 pulled across a bow

components: 弓丨 ×2

Characters built with 弗 as their sound component

These characters all use 弗 (fú) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
弗 sound component	fú	not, negative
费	fèi	expenses, fees; to cost, to spend; wasteful
佛	fú	Buddha; Buddhist
氟	fú	fluorine
沸	fèi	to boil, to bubble up, to gush
拂	fú	to shake off, to brush away; dust
怫	fú	anxious; depressed; sorry
狒	fèi	baboon
绋	fú	thick rope; the rope around a bier
砩	fú	to build a dam with rocks
茀	fú	weeds; overgrowth
艴	fú	angry, showing emotion on one's face

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
阿拉弗拉海	Ā lā fú lā Hǎi	Arafura Sea
弗拉基米尔	Fú lā jī mǐ ěr	Vladimir
西西弗斯	Xī xī fú sī	Sisyphus
克里斯托弗	Kè lǐ sī tuō fú	(Warren) Christopher
弗兰西斯	Fú lán xī sī	Francis (name)
弗雷德里克	Fú léi dé lǐ kè	Frederick (name)
弗里斯兰	Fú lǐ sī lán	Friesland, province of the Netherlands
西弗吉尼亚	Xī Fú jí ní yà	West Virginia, US state
波弗特海	Bō fú tè Hǎi	Beaufort Sea (off Alaska, Yukon and Northwest Territory)
弗洛里斯岛	Fú luò lǐ sī dǎo	Flores, Indonesia; also written 弗洛勒斯島\|弗洛勒斯岛[Fu2 luo4 lei1 si1 dao3]
弗雷德里克顿	Fú léi dé lǐ kè dùn	Fredericton, capital of New Brunswick, Canada
里弗赛德	Lǐ fú sài dé	Riverside
科林·弗思	Kē lín · Fú sī	Colin Firth, English actor (1960-)
弗吉尼亚	Fú jí ní yà	variant of 弗吉尼亞州\|弗吉尼亚州; Virginia, US state
路西弗	Lù xī fú	Lucifer (Satan's name before his fall in Jewish and Christian mythology)
以弗所书	Yǐ fú suǒ shū	Epistle of St Paul to the Ephesians
弗里德里希	Fú lǐ dé lǐ xī	Friedrich (name)
弗里得里希	Fú lǐ dé lǐ xī	Friedrich (name)
弗兰克	Fú lán kè	Frank (name)
弗兰西斯·培根	Fú lán xī sī · Péi gēn	Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English Renaissance philosopher and early scientist