HSK 5 · Verbs

扶 fú “to hold up” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 扶 means

  1. to hold up
  2. to support
  3. to help someone up
  4. to support with the hand
  5. to help sb up
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to support oneself by holding onto something
  • to help

How to say 扶

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale扶fú2nd tone, rising

扶 in a sentence

  1. 他将一位老太太从位子上扶起来。

    Tā jiāng yí wèi lǎotàitai cóng wèizi shàng fú qǐlai.

    He helped an old lady get up from her seat.

    Sentence #13917038 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 烂泥扶不上墙。

    Lànní fú bu shàng qiáng.

    Mud can’t be propped up against a wall (some people are beyond help).

    Sentence #10062388 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 扶 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 扶 (fú) with each of its parts in a different colour
扶fúto support with the hand
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 夫man · fūSound part

扌 hints at the meaning (hand); 夫 (fū) hints at the sound. Compare it with fú.

How to write 扶

扶 7 strokes

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扶 (fú) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 扶 (fú). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 扶

More words: Common Verbs

妨碍fáng'ài · to hinder分布fēnbù · to be distributed (over an area)分配fēnpèi · to distribute奋斗fèndòu · to strive改进gǎijìn · to improve改善gǎishàn · to make better改正gǎizhèng · to correct盖gài · lid

FAQs

扶 (fú) means “to hold up” or “to support”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it fú: fú with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 扶 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 扶 from the suggestions. Typing fu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
扶 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.