numeric:

• two - ふ and ふう used mainly when counting aloud. 弐, 貳 and 貮 are used in legal documents.

noun:

• cloth
• bujian (spade-shaped bronze coin of ancient China) ［ふ］ ➜ 布銭

prefix:

• un-; non-; negative prefix

noun:

• pawn - abbreviation - Shōgi term ➜ 歩兵【ふひょう】

noun:

• spots; speckles; mottles

noun / ~の noun:

• negative; minus ➜ 正【せい】

noun:

• (sheet) music; (musical) note; (musical) score
• genealogy; family tree
• record of a game of go, shogi, chess, etc. - abbreviation ➜ 棋譜

noun:

• instructor; tutor (to a prince) - archaism

noun:

• poem
• narrative (style of the Shi Jing) ➜ 六義
• classical Chinese rhymed prose

noun:

• (metropolitan) prefecture (of Osaka and Kyoto)
• the centre or seat (of) (center)
• (government) office

noun:

• news of someone's death ➜ 訃報

noun:

• internal organ; viscera; gut

noun:

• married woman
• woman; lady

noun:

• wheat gluten (usu. steamed or baked) - Food term ➜ お麩【おふ】・生麩【なまふ】・焼き麩【やきふ】

noun / suffix noun:

• area of thick growth (of trees, grass, etc.) ➜ 芝生

noun:

• charm; talisman; amulet
• tally
• sign; mark; note

counter:

• fu; unit used in calculation of a hand's score - Mahjong term

upper nidan verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:

• to pass; to elapse; to go by - archaism
• to pass through; to go through - archaism
• to experience; to go through - archaism

noun:

• charm; talisman; amulet
• tally
• sign; mark; note

counter:

• fu; unit used in calculation of a hand's score - Mahjong term

noun:

• administrative divisions of Japan: Tokyo-to, Hokkai-do, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu and remaining prefectures

noun:

• Shaolin kung fu

noun:

• nama-fu (steamed wheat gluten) mixed with chestnuts ➜ 生麩【なまふ】

noun:

• yaki-fu (baked wheat gluten) cut in ring-shaped slices (Niigata specialty)

noun:

• Google-fu; search engine skills - colloquialism

noun:

• yaki-fu; wheat gluten leavened with baking powder and baked into long bread-like sticks - Food term ➜ 麸【ふ】

noun:

• nama-fu; wheat gluten mixed with rice flour and steamed in large blocks - Food term ➜ 麸【ふ】

noun:

• Hokkai-do, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu and remaining prefectures (all administrative divisions of Japan except Tokyo-to)

noun:

• kung fu - Martial Arts term - From Chinese "go'ngfu"

noun:

• Monkey Fist; Monkey-Style kung-fu - Martial Arts term

expression:

• Men seldom live to be seventy (Du Fu (c.712-c.770)); Few people live to be seventy - four character idiom

noun:

• Shorinji Kempo (modern Japanese martial art based on Shaolin kung fu) ➜ 少林拳

noun:

• the "ha" column of the Japanese syllabary table (ha, hi, fu, he, ho)

noun:

• any of a number of lists of three enlightened men, including (but not limited to): Buddha, Confucius and Christ
• Lao-tzu, Confucius and Buddha
• Fu Xi, King Wen and Confucius
• Yao, Shun and Yu
• Yu, the Duke of Zhou, Confucius

noun:

• two persons; two people; pair; couple

numeric:

• two - ふ and ふう used mainly when counting aloud. 弐, 貳 and 貮 are used in legal documents.

numeric:

• two

noun:

• parents; both parents

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• winter

noun / suffix noun:

• clothes (esp. Western clothes)

suffix / counter:

• counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc. ➜ 一服

noun:

• common cold; cold; influenza; flu; ague

noun:

• envelope

adjective:

• old; aged; ancient; antiquated; antique; timeworn - of things, not people
• long; since long ago; time-honored
• of the distant past; long-ago
• stale; threadbare; hackneyed; corny
• old-fashioned; outmoded; out-of-date

adjective:

• fat; thick
• deep (of a voice); thick; sonorous
• daring; shameless; brazen; audacious

noun:

• bath; bathtub ➜ お風呂
• bathroom; bathhouse
• room for drying lacquerware
• base (wooden joint connecting the blade of a hoe, spade, etc., to the handle)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down
• to form (of frost)
• to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in
• to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.); to come; to arrive

noun:

• second day of the month
• two days

godan ~く verb / transitive / intransitive verb:

• to blow (e.g. wind); to play a wind instrument
• to whistle
• to laugh; to burst into laughter - often as 吹いた - slang ➜ 吹き出す【ふきだす】

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to smelt; to mint
• to brag; to talk big

~の noun:

• general; ordinary; usual

adverb:

• normally; generally; usually

noun:

• local train; train that stops at every station - abbreviation ➜ 普通列車

adjectival noun:

• complex; complicated; mixed (feelings) ➜ ややこしい

noun:

• ship; boat; watercraft; vessel; steamship ［船・舟］ - 舟 is often small and hand-propelled
• tank; tub; vat; trough

suffix noun / counter:

• counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi) ［船・舟］

noun:

• futon (quilted Japanese-style mattress laid out on the floor)
• round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to step on; to tread on; to trample on
• to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to visit
• to experience; to undergo
• to follow (rules, principles, etc.); to go through (e.g. formalities); to complete
• to estimate; to guess; to judge; to value; to appraise
• to rhyme ➜ 韻を踏む
• to succeed to (e.g. the throne)

adjectival noun / noun:

• inconvenience; inexpediency; unhandiness

noun / ~する noun:

• review; revision

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to increase; to multiply - 殖える usu. refers to population growth or capital appreciation Antonym: 減る

adjective:

• deep Antonym: 浅い
• profound
• dense; thick
• close (relationship)
• intense; strong
• late

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to grow fat (stout, plump); to become fat; to gain weight

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to begin to rain; to begin to snow