譜
musical score, music, note, staff, table, genealogy
Readings
On'yomi
- フ
Kun'yomi
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Meaning
譜 centers on a structured written record that maps out relationships or sequences: a musical score maps notes, a table maps data, and a genealogy maps family lineage.
Most common words using 譜
20 of 46- 楽譜がくふN1
score; sheet music
- 譜面ふめん
sheet music; score
- 系譜けいふ
genealogy; lineage; family tree; pedigree
- 譜ふ
(sheet) music; (musical) note; (musical) score
- 新譜しんぷ
newly released music; new release
- 棋譜きふ
record of a game of go, shogi, chess, etc.
- 暗譜あんぷ
memorizing a musical score
- 五線譜ごせんふ
staff notation
- 採譜さいふ
transcribing in musical notation; copying down (a tune)
- 譜代ふだい
successive generations
- 年譜ねんぷ
chronological record
- 図譜ずふ
illustrated reference book; illustrated catalog
- タブ譜タブふ
tablature
- 五線記譜法ごせんきふほう
five-line musical notation; Western musical notation based on the five-line staff
- 作譜さくふ
log (i.e. work-file)
- 写譜しゃふ
copying a musical score
- 印譜いんぷ
book of seals
- 墨譜ぼくふ
pitch and length marks (to accompany a Buddhist liturgical chant, etc.)
- 家譜かふ
pedigree; genealogy
- 工尺譜こうしゃくふ
Gongche notation; gongchepu
Study
Etymology
譜 combines 言 (speech, words) with 普 (widely, generally), suggesting a written record that makes information widely available. The musical score sense likely developed from the idea of a written chart.
Meaning mnemonic
Words (言) arranged universally (普) like a chart: imagine a musical score where notes are written out in a structured table, or a family tree where names are laid out in order.
Reading mnemonic
For フ, picture a musical score with a big 'F' note at the top: F -> フ, and the whole score is a 譜.