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撫
撫
Translingual
Han character
撫 (radical 64 手+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 手人廿火 (QOTF), four-corner 58031, composition ⿰扌無)
References
- KangXi: page 456, character 9
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12743
- Dae Jaweon: page 805, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1958, character 6
- Unihan data for U+64AB
Chinese
| trad. | 撫 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 抚 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 撫
|
|---|
| Small seal script |
 |
| Characters in the same phonetic series (無) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 墲 | *m̥ʰaː, *maː, *ma |
| 橅 | *maː |
| 膴 | *hmaː, *ma, *maʔ |
| 幠 | *hmaː |
| 鄦 | *hmaʔ |
| 撫 | *m̥ʰaʔ |
| 無 | *ma |
| 瞴 | *ma, *maʔ |
| 蕪 | *ma |
| 璑 | *ma |
| 鷡 | *ma |
| 譕 | *ma |
| 憮 | *ma, *maʔ |
| 舞 | *maʔ |
| 廡 | *maʔ |
| 嫵 | *maʔ |
| 甒 | *maʔ |
| 潕 | *maʔ |
| 儛 | *maʔ |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˇ
- Wade-Giles: fu3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuu
- IPA (key): /fu²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: fu2
- Yale: fú
- Cantonese Pinyin: fu2
- IPA (key): /fuː³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hú
- Tâi-lô: hú
- Phofsit Daibuun: huo
- IPA (Quanzhou): /hu⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /hu⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /hu⁴¹/
- IPA (Xiamen): /hu⁵³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /hu⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, mainstream Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bú
- Tâi-lô: bú
- Phofsit Daibuun: buo
- IPA (Xiamen): /bu⁵³/
- IPA (Taipei): /bu⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /bu⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /bu⁵³/
- Note: bú - vernacular; hú - literary.
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 撫 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 滂 (2) |
| Final (韻) | 虞 (24) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 芳武切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/pʰɨoX/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/pʰioX/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/pʰioX/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/pʰuə̆X/ |
| Li Rong |
/pʰioX/ |
| Wang Li |
/pʰĭuX/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/pʰi̯uX/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
fǔ |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 撫 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
fǔ |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ phjuX › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[pʰ](r)aʔ/ |
| English | lay the hand on |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 撫 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13116 |
| Phonetic component |
無 |
| Rime group |
魚 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
撫 |
| Old Chinese |
/*m̥ʰaʔ/ |
Verb
撫
Derived terms
Korean
Hanja
撫 • (mu) (hangeul 무, revised mu, McCune-Reischauer mu, Yale mu)
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Vietnamese
Han character
撫 (vỗ, dỗ, phủ, vồ)
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