(fù) - bear, carry, negative in Mandarin
fùTraditional: 负
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Translation
bear, carry, negative
Word origin
Derived from 負, an ideographic compound of a person 人 over a cowrie shell 貝 (money), depicting someone owing or carrying a debt, hence to bear, to owe, and the sense of negative.
- Origin
- ideographic compound
- Root
- 人 (person) + 貝 (cowrie, money)
Stroke order
负
Examples
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Who is responsible for this matter?
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He carries a heavy burden.
。
The answer is a negative number.
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He has taken on heavy responsibility.
伍。
The team lost in the end.
负 (fù) covers bearing, carrying, and the mathematical sense of negative, anchoring 负责 (fùzé, be responsible).
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 负.
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