赋予 (fù yǔ) is a formal, literary verb meaning 'to endow', 'to confer', or 'to bestow' — typically something intangible like rights, responsibilities, qualities, authority, or meaning. It combines two characters: 赋 (fù), which historically meant 'to distribute' or 'to levy', and 予 (yǔ), meaning 'to give'. Together, they convey the sense of deliberately granting something valuable or significant to someone or something.

This word is commonly used in official, academic, legal, or philosophical contexts — for example, when discussing constitutional rights, symbolic meanings, or inherent properties. It carries a tone of gravity and intentionality; you wouldn’t use it for casual giving (like handing someone a pen). It often appears in passive constructions (e.g., 被赋予) or with abstract nouns as objects (e.g., 责任, 意义, 权力, 特性). It’s rarely used in spoken, everyday conversation but appears frequently in written Chinese, especially in news reports, policy documents, and literature.