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U+4E4F, 乏
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E4F

[U+4E4E]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+4E50]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 4 丿+4, 5 strokes, cangjie input 竹戈弓人 (HINO), four-corner 20307, composition丿)

  1. lack
  2. poor

Related characters

References


Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character




References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*prom, *proms
*promʔ
*proms
*pʰoms, *bob
*pʰoms, *bob, *kpʰob
*pʰom, *pʰoms
*bom
*poŋʔ
*sproːb
*brub
*bob

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (148)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bɨɐp̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/biɐp̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/biɐp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/buap̚/
Li
Rong
/biɐp̚/
Wang
Li
/bĭwɐp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱi̯wɐp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ bjop ›
Old
Chinese
/*[b](r)[o]p/
English lack (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 2852
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*bob/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 不乏 (bùfá)
  • 不乏其人
  • 不虞匱乏不虞匮乏
  • 中饋乏人中馈乏人
  • 乏人
  • 乏人問津乏人问津
  • 乏倦
  • 乏味 (fáwèi)
  • 乏善可陳乏善可陈
  • 乏困
  • 乏地
  • 乏手
  • 乏月
  • 乏桶
  • 乏樣子乏样子
  • 乏煤
  • 乏用
  • 乏角兒乏角儿
  • 乏貨乏货
  • 乏趣
  • 乏頓乏顿
  • 人困馬乏人困马乏 (rénkùn-mǎfá)
  • 倦乏
  • 分身乏術分身乏术
  • 力乏兵衰
  • 力困筋乏
  • 勞乏劳乏
  • 匱乏匮乏 (kuìfá)
  • 周急繼乏周急继乏
  • 回天乏術回天乏术
  • 回生乏術回生乏术
  • 困乏 (kùnfá)
  • 害乏
  • 家道消乏
  • 彈性疲乏弹性疲乏
  • 後繼乏人后继乏人
  • 後繼乏力后继乏力
  • 承乏
  • 振貧濟乏振贫济乏
  • 春困秋乏
  • 欲振乏力
  • 歇乏
  • 消乏
  • 疲乏 (pífá)
  • 疲乏強度疲乏强度
  • 空乏
  • 窮乏穷乏
  • 絕乏绝乏
  • 缺乏 (quēfá)
  • 謝乏谢乏
  • 貧乏贫乏 (pínfá)
  • 賑窮濟乏赈穷济乏
  • 返魂乏術返魂乏术
  • 道乏
  • 銷乏销乏
  • 闕乏阙乏
  • 養乏养乏

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. poverty
  2. lack
  3. scarcity

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(pip)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: pip, McCune-Reischauer: p'ip)
  • Name (hangeul): 모자랄 (revised: mojaral, McCune-Reischauer: mojaral)
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References


Vietnamese

Han character

(phạp)

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