负
fù HSK3

bear, carry

负 (負) fù
take responsibility verb
to be responsible or accountable for something; to bear the onus of a situation.

无论结果如何，公司都愿意为此负全责。

wú​lùn jié​guǒ rú​hé, gōng​sī dōu yuàn​yì wèi cǐ fù quán​zé.

Whatever the outcome, the company is willing to take full responsibility for it.

betray verb
to turn one's back on or fail to live up to (trust, kindness, or duty)

既然答应了别人，就绝不能做负约的事。

jì​rán dā​ying le bié​ren, jiù jué bù néng zuò fù yuē de shì.

Since you have given your word, you must never break the agreement.

carry idiom
to bear or carry on one's back, or to take on a burden

那头驴正负着沉重的货架向山下走去。

nà tóu lǘ zhèng fù zhe chén​zhòng de huò​jià xiàng shān​xià zǒu​qù.

The donkey was walking down the mountain carrying a heavy load of goods.

lose verb
to be defeated or lose a match

这场比赛我们负于对手。

zhè chǎng bǐ​sài wǒ​men fù yú duì​shǒu.

We lost the match to our opponent.

negative verb
negative (in mathematics, physics, or electricity)

三减五的结果是负二。

sān jiǎn wǔ de jié​guǒ shì fù èr.

The result of three minus five is negative two.

Frequency
Character
Written text
691st most common 282.2 per million
Movie subtitles
746th most common 170.4 per million appears in 58% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
24.3 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
65.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Traditional
負
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+8D1F

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)