副 — Chinese character
副
fù
to assist, to supplement; assistant; secondary; auxiliary
- Pinyin
- fù
- Radical
- 18 ⼑ (Knife)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 畐 刂
- Formation
- pictophonetic — knife; meaning component 刂; sound component 畐
- Japanese
- 副 as a kanji
Common words with 副
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 副作用 | fù zuò yòng | side effect |
| 副教授 | fù jiào shòu | associate professor (university post) |
| 副本 | fù běn | copy; duplicate; transcript; (gaming) dungeon; instance; private team mission |
| 副总裁 (副總裁) | fù zǒng cái | vice-chairman (of an organization); vice president (of a company) |
| 副校长 (副校長) | fù xiào zhǎng | vice-principal |
| 副手 | fù shǒu | assistant |
| 全副武装 (全副武裝) | quán fù wǔ zhuāng | fully armed; armed to the teeth |
| 副刊 | fù kān | supplement |
| 名副其实 (名副其實) | míng fù qí shí | not just in name only, but also in reality (idiom); aptly named |
| 副产品 (副產品) | fù chǎn pǐn | by-product |
| 副官 | fù guān | aide-de-camp |
| 副业 (副業) | fù yè | sideline; side occupation |
English words written with 副
副 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 2
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.