付録

ふろく · furoku · JLPT N1 · noun

appendix

📎 付 (attach) + 録 (record): a record attached to the main text

付 means attached or added, and 録 means record or written note. Together they name the extra pages stuck onto the end of a book. Furoku sounds like 'foo-roku'.

付 — person radical 亻 + hand 寸
付 originally pictured a hand (寸) reaching out to hand something to a person (亻), depicting the act of giving or delivering. The core sense 'to hand over, deliver, pay' has remained stable since ancient bronze inscriptions. It also serves as a phonetic component in characters like 附, 符, and 府.

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