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斧

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

axe

HSK 7

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fǔ

フ

おの

부

Phonosemantic compound. 斤 represents the meaning and 父 represents the sound.

Components

斤 catty+ 父 father =

斧 axe

斤 Meaning component

jīn catty

a catty (approximately 500 g)

父 Phonetic component

fù father

View phonetic series →

Notes

Historical Evolution

Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)

Bronze

Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

斧

Regular

Modern

Chinese

斧 [fǔ]

hatchet

Japanese

斧よき同音

noun hatchet

斧おの同音

noun axe; ax; hatchet

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (1)

彼はおのでその木を切り倒した。

He cut down the tree with an ax.

Japanese Names

斧おの

Ono surname

CHINESE WORDS (29)

斧头 [fǔtóu] #9,767

斧头 [fǔtóu] #9,767

斧子 [fǔzi] #11,599

大刀阔斧 [dàdāokuòfǔ] #43,565

bold and decisive

大刀阔斧 [dàdāokuòfǔ] #43,565

bold and decisive

鬼斧神工 [guǐfǔshéngōng] #40,539

supernaturally fine craft (idiom); the work of the Gods

板斧 [bǎnfǔ] #45,289

班门弄斧 [Bānménnòngfǔ] #51,317

to display one's slight skill before an expert (idiom)

班门弄斧 [Bānménnòngfǔ] #51,317

to display one's slight skill before an expert (idiom)

刀斧手 [dāofǔshǒu] #57,116

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JAPANESE WORDS (18)

戦斧 [せんぷ] #28,748

手斧 [ておの] #33,923

斧槍 [ふそう] #62,769

石斧 [せきふ] #75,068

蟷螂の斧 [とうろうのおの] #98,561

courageous but doomed resistance

斧鉞 [ふえつ] #163,060

斧斤 [ふきん] #253,179

多頭石斧 [たとうせきふ]

stone axe with multiple cutting edges (Jōmon period)

握斧 [あくふ]

(Paleolithic) hand axe

斧旁 [おのづくり]

kanji "axe" radical at right

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