赋予
fù​yǔ HSK7

bestow

赋 fù tax Simplified

Money 贝 used to raise an army 武; 武 also provides the pronunciation

Components

贝
贝 Meaning component
bèi sea shell
武
武 SoundMeaning component
wǔ military

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

予 yǔ give

Embellishment of the phonetically similar character 呂.

Components

呂
呂 Sound component
pitchpipe
Change in sound
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 呂 than it was in ancient scripts.
亅
亅 Distinguishing component
jué hook

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Warring States 475-221 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (6 of 10 verified)

预序野舒豫纾杼預妤紓

Meaning (0 of 3 verified)

抒纾紓

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartyolaʔ I, we
yoXlaʔ give; together with

說文解字

《說文》：“予，推予也。象相予之形。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

賦 tax Traditional

Money 貝 used to raise an army 武; 武 also provides the pronunciation

Components

貝
貝 Meaning component
bèi sea shell
武
武 SoundMeaning component
wǔ military

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartpjuHp(r)a-stax; ballad
Zhengzhangmpas
Unicodebiò
biò

說文解字

斂也。从貝武聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)