How to Write 茀 (fú) — Meaning “Luxuriant growth”

Picture grass (艹) growing so thickly over a road that a person named "Fú" has to push through it. The shape of 弗 looks like a person with arms stretched out, struggling through overgrown vegetation.

Write the top grass radical 艹 with three strokes: horizontal, vertical, horizontal. The bottom part 弗 has five strokes: horizontal, vertical, horizontal, vertical, horizontal. Keep the top compact and the bottom balanced; a common mistake is making the last horizontal too long.

茀 has 弗 (fú) below the grass radical, which looks like a cross with two vertical lines. 兹 has 么 below (meaning "this") and 芈 has 巾 (cloth) below. Remember: 茀 is about overgrown plants, 兹 is a pronoun, and 芈 is a sheep sound or surname.

茀 is very rare in modern Chinese and appears mainly in classical or poetic contexts to describe thick vegetation. It appears in words like 茀郁 (luxuriant and dense) and 茀路 (overgrown road). You will not encounter it in everyday conversation.

Common words containing 茀 include: 茀郁 (fú yù) — Luxuriant and dense; 茀路 (fú lù) — Overgrown road; 茀道 (fú dào) — Overgrown path.