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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 53 广+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 戈人木戈 (IODI), four-corner 00240, composition广)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 345, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9283
  • Dae Jaweon: page 654, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 877, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+5E9C

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*bu
*po, *bos
*po
*poʔ
*poʔ
*poʔ
*pos
*pos
*pʰo
*pʰo, *bo
*pʰo
*pʰo
*pʰoʔ
*pʰoʔ
*bo
*bo
*bo, *bos
*boʔ
*bos
*bos
*bos
*bos
*bos
*bos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *poʔ) : semantic 广 (building) + phonetic  (OC *pos) – a type of building.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (24)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pɨoX/
Pan
Wuyun
/pioX/
Shao
Rongfen
/pioX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/puə̆X/
Li
Rong
/pioX/
Wang
Li
/pĭuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pi̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjuX ›
Old
Chinese
/*p(r)oʔ/
English repository

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. 3511
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*poʔ/

Definitions

  1. (historical) government repository
  2. warehouse; storehouse; stores
  3. (historical) organs of state power
  4. (historical) official residence
  5. (literary, honorific) your residence
  6. (historical) an East Asian administrative division of various status over the centuries, usually translated as prefecture or commandery
  7. prefectural capital
  8. prefect

Synonyms

  • (warehouse): (cāng)

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Noun

(hiragana , romaji fu)

  1. The prefectural governments of Osaka and Kyoto.

Korean

Hanja

(bu) (hangeul , revised bu, McCune-Reischauer pu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(phủ)

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