譜 means “musical score, record”

ふ · fu

Also: music, note, staff

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

フ

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 19 strokes

The story

Words (言) set out all across (普) the page in order: a written record. 譜 is a score or chart: 楽譜 is sheet music, a 譜面 sits on the music stand, and a 系譜 traces a family or a tradition back through time.

Used in 楽譜 (gakufu, sheet music), 譜面 (fumen, written music), and 系譜 (keifu, lineage/genealogy)

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• 叙 narrate
• 吟 chant
• 詠 compose (a poem)
• 唄 song
• 韻 rhyme
• 喩 metaphor
• 彙 collection
• 楷 standard script
• 諧 harmony
• 響 echo
• 鈴 bell
• 俳 haiku

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