赴

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赴 U+8D74, 赴
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8D74
← 赳
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 赵 →

Translingual

Han character

赴 (Kangxi radical 156, 走+2, 9 strokes, cangjie input 土人卜 (GOY), four-corner 43800, composition ⿺走卜)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1215, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37040
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1683, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3474, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8D74

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 赴
alternative forms 䟔

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 赴
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (卜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
仆 *pʰoːɡs, *pʰus, *pʰoɡs, *bɯːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
赴 *pʰoɡs
訃 *pʰoɡs
朴 *pʰroːɡ
圤 *pʰroːɡ
卜 *poːɡ
鳪 *poːɡ
扑 *pʰoːɡ
攴 *pʰoːɡ, *pʰroːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰoɡs) : semantic 走 (“running”) + phonetic 卜 (OC *poːɡ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 赴
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 芳遇切
Baxter phjuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pʰɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pʰioH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/pʰioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pʰuə̆H/
Li
Rong 		/pʰioH/
Wang
Li 		/pʰĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/pʰi̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		fù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fu3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 赴
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		fù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ phjuH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*pʰ(r)ok-s/
English hasten to

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 赴
Reading # 1/1
No. 992
Phonetic
component 		卜
Rime
group 		竇
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		赴
Old
Chinese 		/*pʰoɡs/

Definitions

赴

  1. to go to
  2. to get to; to attend; to visit
    赴港、赴滬、赴美 [MSC, trad.]
    赴港、赴沪、赴美 [MSC, simp.]
    fù gǎng, fù hù, fù měi
    to go to Hong Kong, to go to Shanghai, to go to the USA
    他為人狡猾，我看你還是不要去赴那鴻門宴吧！ [MSC, trad.]
    他为人狡猾，我看你还是不要去赴那鸿门宴吧！ [MSC, simp.]
    Tā wéirén jiǎohuá, wǒ kàn nǐ háishì bùyào qù fù nà hóngményàn ba!
    He is treacherous, so I think you had better not accept his invitation.
  3. to jump into
  4. to join
  5. to accord with
  6. to swim
  7. Alternative form of 訃／讣 (fù, “to give obituary”)
  8. Alternative form of 仆 (“to topple and fall forward”)
  9. a surname: Fu

Synonyms

  • (to go to):

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

赴

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. to visit

Readings

  • Go-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
  • Kun: おもむく (omomuku, 赴く, Jōyō)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 赴 (MC phjuH).

Hanja

赴 (eumhun 다다를 부 (dadareul bu))
赴 (eumhun 갈 부 (gal bu))

  1. hanja form? of 부 (“go to, attend, be present”)

Vietnamese

Han character

赴: Hán Nôm readings: phó

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References

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