弗

弗 (radical 57, 弓+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 中中弓 (LLN), four-corner 5502₇, composition ⿻⿰丿丨弓)

• 㔗, 佛, 沸, 𠔘, 𡗻, 𡘉, 𡛯, 𡶒, 𢂀, 𢏇, 𢒍, 𢘍, 𣭘, 𣲴, 𤝟, 𤤖, 𤫰, 𥘬 𥿏, 𦕚, 𦨡, 𧉸, 𧙂, 𧠤, 𧿳, 𨚓, 𨚭

• KangXi: page 356, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9708
• Dae Jaweon: page 673, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 990, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5F17

Pictogram (象形) – two arrows, tied together to be straightened.

Later borrowed phonetically to mean “no”. The derivative 拂 stands for the original word.

not (verb) him/her/it

Fusion of 不 (OC *pɯ, *pɯʔ, *pɯ', “not”) with 之 (OC *tjɯ, “third-person pronoun”) (Schuessler, 2007).

See etymology of 不 for more.

弗

1. (obsolete or dialectal) not.

   一簞食，一豆羹，得之則生，弗得則死。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   一箪食，一豆羹，得之则生，弗得则死。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: Mencius, circa 4^th century BCE

   Yī dān sì, yī dòu gēng, dé zhī zé shēng, fú dé zé sǐ. [Pinyin]

   Here are a small basket of rice and a platter of soup; getting them will enable survival, while not getting them will result in death.

• In modern Chinese, this character is almost entirely used for phonetic translations. The character mainly represents the phoneme /f/ in word-final and preconsonantal positions.
• The characters 不 (bù) and 否 (fǒu) are far more commonly used to mean “no”.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. fluorine
2. the dollar sign ($)

• Go-on: ほち (hochi)
• Kan-on: ふつ (futsu)
• Kun: ドル (doru, 弗); ず (zu, 弗)

弗 (futsu): a sample of chilled liquid fluorine.

Originally borrowed from Middle Chinese 弗 (*pjut), meaning either “not” or “a gust of wind”. Apparently later repurposed during the later Edo period for its phonetic value in translating the Dutch fluor (“fluorine”).

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ᵝt͡sɨᵝ]

弗 (hiragana ふつ, katakana フツ, rōmaji futsu)

1. (chemistry, chemical elements) fluorine, fluoride

Seldom used. In chemistry contexts, almost always spelled in katakana as フツ, appearing in most compounds as フッ.

弗 (doru): evolution of the dollar symbol for both the United States and (now obsolete) Spanish dollar.

Repurposed for its visual similarity to the dollar symbol $. This reading is ultimately borrowed from Dutch dollar.[1][2]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ド​ル [dóꜜrù] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [do̞ɾɯ̟ᵝ]

• ドル, ㌦

弗 (katakana ドル, rōmaji doru)

1. a dollar

Occasionally seen, but more often encountered in the katakana spelling of ドル.

• 仙 (セント) (sento)

弗 (eumhun 아닐 불 (anil bul))

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2. Repurposed for its visual similarity to the dollar symbol $.[1]

弗 (phất)

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