adjective HSK 3 #3,872

Meanings

  1. 1 rich; wealthy
  2. 2 abundant; plentiful

Characters

Contains (roof) + (full vessel) — a house full of abundance.

Examples

Tā hěn fù.
He is very rich.
Zhèlǐ zīyuán fēngfù.
The resources here are abundant.
Fùrén hé qióngrén de chājù yuèláiyuè dà.
The gap between the rich and poor is getting bigger.

Tips

usage
Common compounds: 丰富 (rich/abundant), 富有 (wealthy/rich in), 财富 (wealth), 富裕 (prosperous).
culture
is associated with prosperity. Note: (fortune/blessing) is the character hung upside-down on doors during New Year, while appears in names and business signage.

Components

radical
mián
roof; house
Top (roof) — the indexing radical, the standard 'under one roof' marker. Anchors as a property-of-the-household word: wealth lives at home. The radical pulls in alongside (home), (peace), (treasure), (room) — domestic-space characters.
phonetic
full vessel; abundance
Bottom supplies the sound (fú → fù, just a tone shift) and a strong semantic echo: itself depicts a brim-full ceremonial wine jar. House (above) + full jar (below) = a household with full storehouses = wealth. Same phonetic family: (blessing), (secondary), (width).

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