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仆

仆

仆 U+4EC6, 仆
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EC6
← 仅
[U+4EC5] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 仇 →
[U+4EC7]
See also: 僕

Translingual

Shinjitai 仆/僕
Simplified 仆/仆
Traditional 仆/僕

Han character

仆 (radical 9 人+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 人卜 (OY), four-corner 23200, composition ⿰亻卜)

References

  • KangXi: page 91, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 354
  • Dae Jaweon: page 193, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 108, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+4EC6

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 仆

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 仆
Small seal script

s05870
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 (卜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
仆 *pʰoːɡs, *pʰus, *pʰoɡs, *bɯːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
赴 *pʰoɡs
訃 *pʰoɡs
朴 *pʰroːɡ
圤 *pʰroːɡ
卜 *poːɡ
鳪 *poːɡ
扑 *pʰoːɡ
攴 *pʰoːɡ, *pʰroːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pʰoːɡs, *pʰus, *pʰoɡs, *bɯːɡ, *pʰoːɡ) : semantic 人 + phonetic 卜 ‎(OC *poːɡ).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 仆 仆 仆 仆
Reading # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
Initial (聲) 滂 (2) 滂 (2) 滂 (2) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 虞 (24) 尤 (136) 侯 (137) 德 (131)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open Open Open
Division (等) III III I I
Fanqie 芳遇切 敷救切 匹候切 蒲北切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pʰɨoH/ /pʰɨuH/ /pʰəuH/ /bək̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pʰioH/ /pʰiuH/ /pʰəuH/ /bək̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pʰioH/ /pʰiəuH/ /pʰəuH/ /bək̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pʰuə̆H/ /pʰuwH/ /pʰəwH/ /bək̚/
Li
Rong		 /pʰioH/ /pʰiuH/ /pʰuH/ /bək̚/
Wang
Li		 /pʰĭuH/ /pʰĭəuH/ /pʰəuH/ /bək̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pʰi̯uH/ /pʰi̯ə̯uH/ /pʰə̯uH/ /bʱək̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fù fòu pòu bó
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 仆 仆 仆
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 pū pū pū
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ phjuH › ‹ phjuwH › ‹ phuwH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰ(r)ok-s/ /*pʰok-s/ /*pʰˤ(r)ok-s/
English fall prostrate fall prostrate fall prostrate

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 仆 仆 仆 仆 仆
Reading # 1/5 2/5 3/5 4/5 5/5
No. 990 991 994 997 1002
Phonetic
component		 卜 卜 卜 卜 卜
Rime
group		 候 幽 竇 職 屋
Rime
subdivision		 0 1 0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 仆 副 赴 菔 扑
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰoːɡs/ /*pʰus/ /*pʰoɡs/ /*bɯːɡ/ /*pʰoːɡ/

Definitions

仆

  1. to fall forward
  2. to lie prostrate; prone

Compounds

  • 僵仆
  • 前仆後繼／前仆后继
  • 前仆後起／前仆后起
  • 屢仆屢起／屡仆屡起
  • 攧攧仆仆
  • 此仆彼起
  • 顛仆／颠仆

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 仆 – see 僕 (“servant”).
(This character, 仆, is the simplified form of 僕.)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

仆

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

仆 • ‎(bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune-Reischauer pu, Yale pwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

仆 (bộc, phó)

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