Zi:甫
甫 [fǔ] (书) courtesy name; sir; adult man; I/we; begin/first, just/only (甫能, 甫卸); grant/give, spread/publish; (HDZ:) (古) (美称) … [fū] 尃 [pǔ] 圃 [bǔ] (HDC:) (古泽薮名) 甫/圃田
One monosyllabic entry in The ABC Cantonese-English Dictionary (namespace Jyut):
►pou3/1 甫 b.f./char. ►baai2 pou3/1 si6/2 擺甫士 ►pou3/1 si6/2 甫士 ►pou3/1 si6 kaat1 甫士咭
One monosyllabic entry in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):
►⁸fǔ 甫 {E} 〈environment:〉 wr. adv. just; only
The Shuōwén Seal form of 甫() fǔ ‘sir; give/use’ is said to combine 父() fù ‘father’ (phonosemantic), and 用(𠂦) yòng ‘use’.
Note: 甫 was a nominal suffix of respect, apparently related to 父() fù ‘father’, and also 傅() fù (as in 师傅 ‘master/teacher’), and 夫() fū (as in 丈夫 ‘man; husband’); 甫 was formerly also used for 尃() fū ‘grant/give, spread/publish’, later wr. 𢾭() fū ‘grant/give’, later wr. 旉/敷; the chain/variety of forms was meant to distinguish various meanings now assoc. with 敷 from those now assoc. with 甫.
Note: According to DYC, 甫 was used to address any adult man, and also meant 大 ‘adult man’, and 始 ‘begin’ because adult life began at 20 (冠礼); it was later conflated with the “字”, 且字 ‘style’, which in Zhōu times was the name chosen at the age of 20 and used until 50, after which a man was addressed as 伯 or 仲, depending on his 伯仲叔季 seniority in the family.
Compare: 簠() fǔ ‘anc. ritual grain vessel’; 圃() pǔ ‘vegetable garden’, formerly also wr. 甫; 邦(𨛝𤰫).
Compare: 辅/輔() fǔ ‘spoke reinforcements’; 輔 fǔ ‘assist/help’ was formerly wr. 俌(), itself app. formerly wr. 甫 (give/help).
“[甫] Personal name taken at 20 years; name; ‘style’; begin, at first, just — the seal has 用 signific and 父 phonetic, the latter badly distorted in the modern form” —Karlgren(AD).
HDZ: 甫 : fǔ : (古) (美称) 男子的美称; 大 (cf. 溥); 开始, 起初 (cf. 晡?); 我; 尃 (fū): 公布 (cf. 旉/尃); (古国名); (姓) • pǔ : 圃: 种菜; (古地名) 甫/圃田
►references: Guǎngyùn:260.17; Karlgren:AD42,49,GSR102n; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.20.1; Mathews:1942; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:756.02; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:046.0.01; Wáng(1993):74; EDOC:1
►components: 丶父用十月
►Cantonese: fu/
Shuōwén: (甫)
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<comp char='' uni='EA99' points='0,0 128,128' />
<stroke type='d' points='86,0 106,12' />
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</cdl>
<cdl char='' uni='EA99'>
<stroke type='h' points='0,24 128,24' />
<comp char='月' uni='6708' variant='6' points='14,46 114,128' />
<stroke type='s' points='62,0 62,126' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='月' uni='6708' variant='6' points='16,4 112,128'>
<comp char='冂' uni='5182' variant='4' points='0,0 128,128' />
<comp char='二' uni='4E8C' variant='5' points='0,35 128,69' />
<!-- variant based on [U+2E9D](V=0) -->
</cdl>
<cdl char='冂' uni='5182' variant='4' points='4,4 124,128' radical='K0'>
<stroke type='s' points='0,0 0,128' />
<stroke type='hzg' points='0,0 128,0 128,128 82,106' head='cut' />
<!-- variant based on [U+E6DA](V=0) -->
</cdl>
<cdl char='二' uni='4E8C' variant='5' points='0,4 128,124' radical='K0'>
<stroke type='h' points='0,0 128,0' head='cut' tail='cut' />
<stroke type='h' points='0,128 128,128' head='cut' tail='cut' />
<!-- variant based on [U+EF79](V=0) -->
</cdl>
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