敷
fū HSK7

spread

敷 fū
apply verb
to spread, lay out, or apply (such as powder, ointment, or dressing)

医生在她的伤口上敷了药膏。

yī​shēng zài tā de shāng​kǒu shàng fū le yào​gāo.

The doctor applied ointment to her wound.

sufficient idiom
enough to cover a requirement; adequate for a specific purpose

由于开支过大，他感到入不敷出。

yóu​yú kāi​zhī guò dà, tā gǎn​dào rù​bù​fū​chū.

Due to high expenses, he found it hard to make ends meet.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,788th most common 13.2 per million
Movie subtitles
2,764th most common 5.23 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.93 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
13.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+6577

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