noun #8,166

Meanings

  1. 1 abdomen; belly; stomach

Examples

Tā fùbù shòu le shāng.
He was injured in the abdomen.
Kōngfù bùyào chī yào.
Don't take medicine on an empty stomach.
Mǎnfù láosāo yě méiyǒu yòng.
Being full of complaints won't help either.

Tips

usage
is the literary/formal word for belly. In everyday speech, 肚子 (dùzi) is used instead. appears in many compounds: 腹部 (abdomen), (empty stomach), 腹泻 (diarrhea), 满腹 (full of, figurative).
memory
The radical (meat/body part) on the left tells you it's a body part. (fù) on the right gives the pronunciation.

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