辅
to assist; to complement; auxiliary
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,922 U+8F85
How 辅 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
车 (semantic, “cart”) + 甫 (phonetic, fǔ)
How to remember it
supplement · Heisig RSH #1380
cart + dog tag
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 甫
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 甫 (fǔ) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 甫 sound component | fǔ | to begin; man, father; great; a distance of ten li |
| 铺 | pù | shop, store; bed, mattress |
| 浦 | pǔ | beach, shore, river bank; surname |
| 捕 | bǔ | to arrest, to catch, to seize |
| 哺 | bǔ | to chew; to feed |
| 埔 | pǔ | arena; market; plain; port |
| 圃 | pǔ | garden, orchard, plot of farmland |
| 脯 | pú | dried meat; preserved fruits |
| 匍 | pú | to crawl; to lie prostrate |
| 逋 | bū | to flee, to run away; to leave a debt unsettled |
| 莆 | pú | a kind of legendary tree |
| 乶 | fǔ | Pholha, a place in Korea |
| 尃 | fū | to announce, to state |
| 晡 | bū | late afternoon |
| 黼 | fǔ | embroidered official or sacrificial robe |
Words containing 辅
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 基辅罗斯 | Jī fǔ Luó sī | Kievan Rus', East Slavic state that reached its peak in the early to mid-11th century |
| 相辅相成 | xiāng fǔ xiāng chéng | (idiom) to complement one another |
| 电脑辅助工程 | diàn nǎo fǔ zhù gōng chéng | computer-aided engineering |
| 辅仁大学 | Fǔ rén Dà xué | Fu Jen Catholic University of Peking (from 1925), forerunner of Beijing Normal University … |
| 计算机辅助设计 | jì suàn jī fǔ zhù shè jì | CAD computer-aided design |
| 电脑辅助设计 | diàn nǎo fǔ zhù shè jì | computer-aided design |
| 辅导人 | fǔ dǎo rén | tutor |
| 辅导金 | fǔ dǎo jīn | grant (Tw) |
| 辅导员 | fǔ dǎo yuán | student counselor (in Chinese universities) |
| 电脑辅助设计与绘图 | diàn nǎo fǔ zhù shè jì yǔ huì tú | computer-aided design and drawing |
| 辅助语 | fǔ zhù yǔ | auxiliary language |
| 辅大 | Fǔ Dà | abbr. for 輔仁大學|辅仁大学[Fu3 ren2 Da4 xue2] |
| 辅导班 | fǔ dǎo bān | tutorial class; remedial class; preparatory course |
| 辅音 | fǔ yīn | consonant |
| 基辅 | Jī fǔ | Kyiv or Kiev, capital of Ukraine |
| 教辅 | jiào fǔ | supplementary educational material (e.g. a practice workbook, exam preparation guide etc) |
| 辅以 | fǔ yǐ | supplemented by; accompanied by; with |
| 辅食 | fǔ shí | complementary food (for an infant) |
| 辅系 | fǔ xì | (Tw) (university education) minor |
| 辅助医疗 | fǔ zhù yī liáo | complementary medicine |