What 賻 means
賻 means funeral aid for the bereaved household. In formal condolence vocabulary, it can name either the support given or the money and goods contributed.
The character joins 貝, the money-or-valuables component, with 尃, which supplies the sound. This is a sound-and-meaning construction, not a picture of a funeral.
It began as support for the bereaved.
The Yili (儀禮), a classical Chinese book of ritual rules, is an early textual witness to 賻. Its funeral passage distinguishes three terms: 賻 is financial aid for the living household, 贈 is a personal gift for the dead, and 賵 names another category of funeral goods. By the Tang period, mourning and burial rules had entered administrative statutes; Japan later adapted provisions modeled on Tang rules.
As of 2026, Korean funeral writing uses 賻儀 for money or goods sent to the bereaved. Japanese formal writing preserves 賻 in 贈賻, while Singaporean Mandarin calls a comparable cash gift 帛金 or 白金.
Solemn and ceremonial; in modern use, it belongs to formal funeral vocabulary.
Avoid sending 賻 alone as encouragement; it can sound like a funeral contribution.
Who writes 賻
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsAs of 2026, a specialized funeral-gift term, not everyday Japanese wording.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
1Questions people ask
1Why does 賻 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 賻
- Also called
- fù · fu4 · 赙
- Search it as
- condolence · funeral aid · funeral gift · mourning · bereaved family
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
賻\8CFBCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.