辅 (fǔ): to assist, to complement, auxiliary
辅 (fǔ) is a Chinese character meaning “to assist.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 车 (semantic) and 甫 (phonetic). It ranks #2002 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 辅 cart. Its radical form 车 (cart) appears in many related characters such as 车 (chē, vehicle), 轻 (qīng, light), 辆 (liàng, measure word for vehicles).
Definitions
- to assist
- to complement
- auxiliary
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 辅
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 辅导员noun | fǔ dǎo yuán | student counselor (in Chinese universities) |
| 基辅proper-noun | jī fǔ | Kyiv or Kiev, capital of Ukraine |
| 辅佐verb | fǔ zuǒ | to assist (usually a ruler) |
| 辅导班 | fǔ dǎo bān | tutorial class |
| 辅音noun | fǔ yīn | consonant |
| 相辅相成phrase | xiāng fǔ xiāng chéng | (idiom) to complement one another |
| 辅料noun | fǔ liào | auxiliary ingredients |
| 辅以 | fǔ yǐ | supplemented by |
| 辅修verb | fǔ xiū | (education) to minor in |
| 教辅noun | jiào fǔ | supplementary educational material (e.g. a practice workbook, exam preparation guide etc) |
| 计算机辅助设计 | jì suàn jī fǔ zhù shè jì | CAD computer-aided design |
| 电脑辅助工程 | diàn nǎo fǔ zhù gōng chéng | computer-aided engineering |
| 电脑辅助设计 | diàn nǎo fǔ zhù shè jì | computer-aided design |
| 电脑辅助设计与绘图 | diàn nǎo fǔ zhù shè jì yǔ huì tú | computer-aided design and drawing |
| 基辅罗斯proper-noun | jī fǔ luó sī | Kievan Rus', East Slavic state that reached its peak in the early to mid-11th century |
辅 appears in 32 compound words: 72 as the first character, 6 as the last, and 22 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 辅 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Showing 1 of 2 idioms containing 辅.
Example Sentences
老师辅导学生做作业，耐心解答每一个问题。
Lǎoshī fǔdǎo xuéshēng zuò zuòyè, nàixīn jiědá měi yī gè wèntí.
The teacher tutors students with their homework, patiently answering every question.
暨大缅甸特辅班114学年度上路 接收台师大145侨生...
jì dà miǎn diàn tè fǔ bān 1 1 4 xué nián dù shàng lù jiē shōu tái shī dà 1 4 5 qiáo shēng . . .
The 114th academic year of the special auxiliary class of the University of Myanmar is on the road to receive 145 overseas Chinese students from Taiwan Normal University...
...omenta深化未来出行领域合作 拓智能辅助驾驶功能
. . . o m e n t a shēn huà wèi lái chū háng lǐng yù gě zuò tuò zhì néng fǔ zhù jià shǐ gōng néng
... omenta deepens cooperation in the field of future mobility and expands intelligent assisted driving functions
...窄到一根手指都疼是怎么回事?需要心理咨询辅助吗
. . . zhǎi dào yī gēn shǒu zhǐ dōu téng shì zěn má huí shì ? xū yāo xīn lǐ zī xún fǔ zhù ma
... What's going on with it so narrow that it hurts to one finger? Do you need psychological counseling assistance?
医疗辅助队总参事黄英强涉非礼女子被控 准以1万...
yī liáo fǔ zhù duì zǒng cān shì huáng yīng qiáng shè fēi lǐ nǚ zǐ bèi kòng zhǔn yǐ 1 wàn . . .
Huang Yingqiang, Chief Counselor of the Auxiliary Medical Service, was charged with indecent assault on a woman and was allowed to pay 10,000...
...奥|选手触壶作弊,场上飚起脏话,拒绝科技辅助..
. . . ào xuǎn shǒu chù hú zuò bì , chǎng shǎng 飚 qǐ zāng huà , jù jué kē jì fǔ zhù . .
... The Olympic athletes cheated by touching pots, swearing on the field and refusing to be assisted by technology...
乌克兰的首都是基辅。
Wūkèlán de shǒudū shì Jīfǔ.
The capital of Ukraine is Kyiv.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 车 (cart) component
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