Definify.com

Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 50 +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹日中月 (HALB), four-corner 26227, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 330, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8855
  • Dae Jaweon: page 635, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 734, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5E1B

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*pʰraːɡs, *pʰraːɡ
*pʰraːɡs, *mbraːd
*pʰaːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
*pʰaːɡ
*baːɡ
*baːɡ
*tʰaːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
*prɯɡ
*praːɡ
*praːɡ
*praːɡ
*praːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
*praːɡ
*praːɡ
*pʰraːɡ
*pʰraːɡ
*pʰraːɡ, *ɡeːwʔ
*mpʰraːɡ, *mbraːɡ
*braːɡ
*braːɡ
*braːɡ
*braːɡ
*mbraːɡ
*mbraːɡ
*mbraːɡ
*mbraːɡ
*mbraːɡ
*mbraːɡ
*mbraːɡ
*praɡ, *preɡ
*ɦmreːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *braːɡ) : phonetic  (OC *braːɡ) + semantic  (cloth).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (113)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bˠæk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/bᵚak̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/bak̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/baɨjk̚/
Li
Rong
/bɐk̚/
Wang
Li
/bɐk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱɐk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ bæk ›
Old
Chinese
/*[b]ˤrak/
English silk

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. 208
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*braːɡ/

Definitions

  1. silks; fabrics
  2. wealth; property

Compounds

  • 功垂竹帛
  • 名垂竹帛
  • 垂名竹帛
  • 子女玉帛
  • 布帛
  • 布帛菽粟
  • 帛丸
  • 帛書帛书 (bóshū)
  • 帛畫帛画
  • 幣帛币帛
  • 披帛
  • 衣不重帛
  • 衣帛食肉
  • 衲帛
  • 裂帛
  • 財帛财帛
  • 賜帛赐帛
  • 金帛 (jīnbó)
  • 錢帛钱帛
  • 隔帛兒隔帛儿
  • 雁帛
  • 香帛

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(baek) (hangeul , revised baek, McCune-Reischauer paek)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Vietnamese

Han character

(bạch)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.