赴 (fù) · to go to, to attend, to proceed to

Meanings

1 to go to
2 to attend
3 to proceed to

Characters

赴

fù

go to; attend

Examples

HSK 4

他赴美留学了。

Tā fù Měi liúxué le.

He went to America to study abroad.

HSK 5

代表团即将赴日访问。

Dàibiǎotuán jíjiāng fù Rì fǎngwèn.

The delegation is about to visit Japan.

Tips

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赴 is literary/formal. In everyday speech, use 去 instead. 赴 is common in news, official documents, and set phrases like 赴约 (keep an appointment) and 赴宴 (attend a banquet).

Components

radical

走 zǒu

to walk; to go

Wrapping radical 走 - a person striding above the foot 止, the indexing radical for purposeful movement. In 赴 it provides the core action: traveling somewhere with intent. Same family: 起 to rise, 超 to surpass, 越 to exceed, 赶 to chase - all 走-radical motion characters.

phonetic

卜 bǔ

to divine; oracle bone (here phonetic)

Upper-right 卜 supplies the sound - bǔ drifting to fù via labial alternation common in Old Chinese. 卜 pictures a crack in a heated tortoise shell, the original oracle. No divination meaning is carried; the tiny two-stroke phonetic just locks in the reading.