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Chinese symbol for “adverb”

副词
fù cí
Traditional: 副詞
adverb

The closest CC-CEDICT match for adverb is 副词 (fù cí), defined as: adverb.

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Characters and stroke order

副 fù
to assist, to supplement; assistant; secondary; auxiliary
radical 18 ⼑ · 11 strokes
词 cí
phrase, expression; words, speech
radical 149 ⾔ · 7 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 副词.

WordPinyinMeaning
副作用fù zuò yòngside effect
副教授fù jiào shòuassociate professor (university post)
副本fù běncopy; duplicate; transcript; (gaming) dungeon; instance; private team mission
副总裁 (副總裁)fù zǒng cáivice-chairman (of an organization); vice president (of a company)
副校长 (副校長)fù xiào zhǎngvice-principal
副手fù shǒuassistant
歌词 (歌詞)gē císong lyric; lyrics
词汇 (詞匯)cí huìvariant of 词汇 (cí huì)

See also: Japanese symbol for “adverb”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.