(fù) - rich, wealthy in Mandarin
fùTraditional: 富
Translation
rich, wealthy
Word origin
Pictures a full wine vessel (畐) under a roof (宀), the image of a well-stocked household; the sense of abundance became rich, wealthy.
- Origin
- semantic compound
- Root
- 宀 (mián, roof) + 畐 (fú, a full vessel)
Stroke order
富
Examples
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His family is rich and lives in a big house.
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Oil has made this country rich.
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Rich people and poor people live very differently.
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She dreams of becoming rich one day.
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This city became rich through trade.
富 (fù) is rich or wealthy. Like every Chinese adjective it needs a degree word to work as a predicate: 他很富 (tā hěn fù), not a bare 他富, unless you are deliberately making a contrast.
It pairs constantly with its opposite, 穷 (qióng, poor): 富人 (fùrén, a rich person) against 穷人 (qióngrén, a poor person). It also feeds a cluster of compounds around abundance: 丰富 (fēngfù, rich, abundant, used of content or resources rather than money) and 富有 (fùyǒu), a more formal way to say wealthy.
Note the tone stays fourth throughout its compounds, so 富人 (fùrén), 富有 (fùyǒu) and 丰富 (fēngfù) all keep the falling tone on 富 (fù) itself.
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