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(fù) - attach, nearby (bound) in Mandarin

Traditional: 附

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Translation

attach, nearby (bound)

Word origin

A phono-semantic compound: the mound radical 阝on the left relates to land and proximity, and 付 (fu) on the right supplies the sound, giving the senses of to attach to and nearby.

Origin
phono-semantic compound
Root
阝(mound radical) + 付 (fu, phonetic)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 附

Examples

He lives nearby.

Please see the attachment.

The additional fee is expensive.

A photo was enclosed with the letter.

Please attach the photo to the letter.

附 (fù) means attach or nearby, forming 附近 (fùjìn, nearby) and 附加 (fùjiā, additional).

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 附.

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This word is part of lesson 107.