弗

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

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

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

Historical forms of the character 弗
Shang	Western Zhou
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions

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

Later borrowed phonetically to mean “no”. The derivative 拂 (OC *pʰɯd) 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). The glyph conflated with 不 (MC pjuw|pjuwX|pjut) by the Han times, due to naming taboo. Its colloquial reading survives in the latter. See etymology of 不 for more.

弗

1. (Classical) 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, c. 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.

2. Used in 弗弗.
3. Alternative form of 祓 (fú)
4. ^† to straighten; to correct
5. Used in transcription.

• In modern Standard 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”.

According to Pan (2002), a labiodentalized and checked variant of 不 (OC *pɯ, *pɯʔ, *pɯ').

In certain varieties the initial has gained voicing and in some cases caused the word shifted to yang tones, either restricted to specific syntactical positions or in all contexts.

See also 勿 (veq).

弗

1. (Wu) Alternative form of 勿 (“not”)

   我弗要搭伊去！ [Shanghainese, trad. and simp.]

   ⁶ngu ⁸veq-iau ⁷taq ⁶yi ⁵chi [Wugniu]

   I don't want to go with him!

   對弗起／对弗起 [Suzhounese]  ―  ⁵te-feq₇-chi₃ [Wugniu]  ―  Sorry

• 勿, 弗 and 伐 are all characters that have been popular in representing the checked and labiodentalized series of negators, generally pronounced as /fəʔ/, /vəʔ/ or both depending on the exact variety. In historical literature, the exact choice of character varied between the topolects and the preferences of individual writers.
• In some contemporary proposals aiming to standardize cross-topolectal writing in Wu, it is preferred that the voiced variants of the negator be written with 勿 and the unvoiced variants of the negator with 弗. This is often received somewhat inconsistently, however, and the choice between the variant characters remains largely a matter of personal preference.

(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”).

• IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ᵝt͡sɨᵝ]

弗(ふつ) or 弗(フツ) • (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.

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

弗 (eumhun 아닐 불 (anil bul))

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

弗: Hán Nôm readings: phất

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