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婆

婆

Translingual

Han character

婆 (radical 38 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水水女 (EEV), four-corner 34404, composition ⿱波女)

Coordinate terms

References

  • KangXi: page 264, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6390
  • Dae Jaweon: page 530, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1061, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+5A46

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 婆

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (皮) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
陂 *pral, *prals
詖 *pral, *prals
彼 *pralʔ
柀 *pralʔ
佊 *pralʔ, *prals
貱 *prals
跛 *prals, *paːlʔ
披 *pʰral, *pʰralʔ
鈹 *pʰral
帔 *pʰral, *pʰrals
鮍 *pʰral
耚 *pʰral
狓 *pʰral
翍 *pʰral
旇 *pʰral, *brals
秛 *pʰral, *pʰrals
紴 *pʰralʔ, *paːl
皮 *bral
疲 *bral
被 *bralʔ, *brals
髲 *brals
鞁 *brals
骳 *mbralʔ
波 *paːl
碆 *paːl, *baːl
菠 *paːl
簸 *paːlʔ, *paːls
駊 *paːlʔ, *pʰaːlʔ
頗 *pʰaːl, *pʰaːlʔ, *pʰaːls
坡 *pʰaːl
玻 *pʰaːl
破 *pʰaːls
婆 *baːl
蔢 *baːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *baːl) : phonetic 波 ‎(OC *paːl) + semantic 女 ‎(“woman”) – a kind of woman.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 婆
Mandarin Beijing /pʰo³⁵/
Harbin /pʰɤ²⁴/
Tianjin /pʰo⁴⁵/
Jinan /pʰə⁴²/
Qingdao /pʰə⁴²/
Zhengzhou /pʰo⁴²/
Xi'an /pʰo²⁴/ ～娘
/pʰo⁴⁴/ 丈夫母親
Xining /pʰɔ²⁴/
Yinchuan /pʰuə⁵³/
Lanzhou /pʰə⁵³/
Ürümqi /pʰɤ⁵¹/
Wuhan /pʰo²¹³/
Chengdu /pʰo³¹/
Guiyang /pʰo²¹/
Kunming /pʰo³¹/
Nanjing /pʰo²⁴/
Hefei /pʰʊ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /pʰɤ¹¹/
Pingyao /pʰɔ¹³/
/pei¹³/ 老～
Hohhot /pʰɤ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /bu²³/
Suzhou /bu¹³/
Hangzhou /bo²¹³/
Wenzhou /bøy³¹/
Hui Shexian /pʰo⁴⁴/
Tunxi /pʰo⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /po¹³/
Xiangtan /bo¹²/
Gan Nanchang /pʰo²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /pʰo¹¹/
Taoyuan /pʰo¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pʰɔ²¹/
Nanning /pʰɔ²¹/
Hong Kong /pʰɔ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /po³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /po⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /pɔ²¹/
/pɔ³³/ 賤
Shantou (Min Nan) /pʰua⁵⁵/
/po⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /fo³¹/
/ʔbo³¹/
Rime
Character 婆
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 戈 (95)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 薄波切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /buɑ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /buɑ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /buɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /bwa/
Li
Rong		 /buɑ/
Wang
Li		 /buɑ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱuɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 pó
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 婆
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 pó
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ba ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[b]ˤa[j]/
English 婆娑 saunter, dance

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 婆
Reading # 1/1
No. 9734
Phonetic
component		 皮
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 婆
Old
Chinese		 /*baːl/
Notes 爾雅用於婆娑，廣韻老母乃如集韻同媻

Definitions

婆

  1. old woman
  2. grandmother
  3. mother-in-law (of a woman); husband's mother
  4. woman in a particular profession
  5. pejorative suffix for a woman

Usage notes

In transcriptions of Buddhist terms, 婆 (MC buɑ) is often used to transcribe Sanskrit ब ‎(ba), भ ‎(bha) and व ‎(va).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

婆

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. old woman
  2. grandmother
  3. crone

Readings

Synonyms

See also

Korean

Hanja

婆 • ‎(pa) (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune-Reischauer p'a)

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Vietnamese

Han character

婆 (bà)

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