Character: 副
Modern (Beijing) reading: fù
Preclassic Old Chinese: phrǝk
Classic Old Chinese: phrǝk
Western Han Chinese: phrǝk
Eastern Han Chinese: phrǝk
Early Postclassic Chinese: phɨk
Middle Postclassic Chinese: phɨk
Late Postclassic Chinese: phɨk
Middle Chinese: phɨk
English meaning : to rend, split
Russian meaning[s]: 1) помогать; помощник; заместитель, вице-; 2) второй; вторичный, побочный; дубликат, копия; 3) соответствовать; 4) комплект, набор
Comments: Also read *phǝk, MC phük id. Another reading is *phǝk-s, MC phǝ̀w, Mand. fù (hence Viet. phó) 'a k. of head-dress' (thus in Shi 47.1); since Han the word obtained the meaning 'next in rank, deputy' (it is not quite clear whether these two meanings of *phǝk-s > phǝ̀w are actually related to each other).
Radical: 18
Four-angle index: 2825
Karlgren code: 0933 s
Vietnamese reading: phó
Shijing occurrences: 47.1
