腐 fǔ to spoil
to spoil; to rot; to decay
怎么记住“腐”: 府 prefect + 肉 meat = to spoil. The prefect forgets the gift box in his hot office all weekend, and the expensive meat inside begins to spoil.
部件结构
腐 = 府 prefect + 肉 meat
- 府 prefect
- 肉 meat
The prefect forgets the gift box in his hot office all weekend, and the expensive meat inside begins to spoil.
用法
- 腐 means to rot or decay, and is bound outside of a couple of fixed nouns.
- 豆腐 dòufu (tofu) is by far the most common everyday word containing it, though the 'rot' meaning is invisible there - just memorize it as the word for tofu.
- 腐败 fǔbài covers both literal decay and figurative corruption (政府腐败 government corruption) - a common word in news Chinese.
- 腐烂 fǔlàn (to rot, of food or organic matter) and 腐蚀 fǔshí (to corrode, of metal or morals) are more literal/technical.