TongTong
Sign in

富士 (Fù shì) — Fuji (Japanese company, e.g., Fujifilm, Fuji Xerox); Mount Fuji (富士山, Japan's highest mountain)

Definition

Short form of 富士山 (Mount Fuji) and the prefix in company names like Fujifilm. In Chinese, the mountain is always called 富士山; bare 富士 alone usually means the brand.

noun
Fuji (Japanese company, e.g., Fujifilm, Fuji Xerox)Mount Fuji (富士山, Japan's highest mountain)

Examples

  • 富士。
    Fù shì Gōng sī de chǎn pǐn zài shì chǎng shàng hěn shòu huān yíng.
    Fuji's products are very popular in the market.
  • 富士。
    Wǒ yòng de xiàng jī shì Fù shì pái de.
    The camera I use is Fuji brand.
  • 。
    Fù shì Shān shì rì běn zuì zhù míng de lǚ yóu jǐng diǎn zhī yī.
    Mount Fuji is one of Japan's most famous tourist attractions.

Origin

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
宀宀mián
Sound part声符shēngfú
畐
畐fú富fù
Same sound today

富 pairs 宀, a roof-shaped part, with 畐, which gives the sound fú.

Open 富 →

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The shape 士 comes from a simple drawing of a war axe. The character later came to mean a soldier, officer, or intellectual.

Open 士 →
Appears in
Geography & Landforms

Browse more HSK 7-9 words or search the full 43,000-word dictionary.