'A lotus rising from the water' describes a woman's fresh beauty.
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芙 is almost never used alone -- it appears in the compound 芙蓉 (fúróng), which can mean either lotus or hibiscus. It also appears in place names like 芙蓉镇 (Fúróng Town) and as part of female given names.
Top grass radical in its 3-stroke compressed form, indexing 芙 with the vast botanical family — 花 flower, 草 grass, 茶 tea, 莲 lotus. It announces that whatever comes below names a plant; here it pairs with 夫 to write the lotus / hibiscus.
Bottom 夫 supplies the sound, fū level-tone shifting to fú rising-tone — a regular pitch shift across the same phonetic series (扶, 肤, 麸). The 'man' meaning is irrelevant here; 夫 is purely a sound-tag pinning down the plant name 芙蓉 'lotus / hibiscus'.
