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noun #34,528

Meanings

  1. 1 dried meat; jerky
  2. 2 preserved (candied) fruit

Examples

HSK 3
Wǒ xǐhuan chī niúròu fǔ.
I like to eat beef jerky.
HSK 5
Táo fǔ shì yì zhǒng chuántǒng de língshí.
Candied peach is a traditional snack.
HSK 5
Zhèxiē guǒfǔ shì yòng xīnxiān shuǐguǒ zuò de.
These candied fruits are made from fresh fruit.

Tips

mistakes
Two readings, two words. This one, fǔ, is dried meat or candied fruit (肉脯杏脯桃脯). Read pú, means the chest, as in 胸脯. Saying xiōngfǔ for the chest is the usual slip.

Components

radical
ròu
meat; flesh (radical form)
Left meat-flesh radical (side-form of , visually identical to but a different semantic source) - the indexing radical. Marks as a body-and-meat word. Carries two senses: preserved dried meat and candied fruit under this reading, and anatomical chest flesh when read pú in 胸脯. Both link cleanly to flesh.
phonetic
manhood; just
Right supplies the sound fǔ (exact match). was an honorific title for adult males in classical names (e.g. 杜甫 the Tang poet). Same phonetic family: catch, feed, riverbank, garden. Pure phonetic role; the honorific meaning of doesn't enter .

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