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柏

柏

See also: 栢

Translingual

Han character

柏 (radical 75 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木竹日 (DHA), four-corner 46900, composition ⿰木白)

  1. cypress
  2. cedar
  3. a surname

References

  • KangXi: page 518, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14617
  • Dae Jaweon: page 906, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1185, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+67CF

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 柏
alt. forms 栢

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (白) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
怕 *pʰraːɡs, *pʰraːɡ
帕 *pʰraːɡs, *mbraːd
粕 *pʰaːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
胉 *pʰaːɡ
泊 *baːɡ
箔 *baːɡ
魄 *tʰaːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
皕 *prɯɡ
伯 *praːɡ
百 *praːɡ
迫 *praːɡ
敀 *praːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
柏 *praːɡ
湐 *praːɡ
拍 *pʰraːɡ
珀 *pʰraːɡ
皛 *pʰraːɡ, *ɡeːwʔ
洦 *mpʰraːɡ, *mbraːɡ
白 *braːɡ
帛 *braːɡ
舶 *braːɡ
鮊 *braːɡ
陌 *mbraːɡ
帞 *mbraːɡ
袹 *mbraːɡ
蛨 *mbraːɡ
貊 *mbraːɡ
佰 *mbraːɡ
銆 *mbraːɡ
碧 *praɡ, *preɡ
咟 *ɦmreːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *praːɡ) : semantic 木 ‎(“tree”) + phonetic 白 ‎(OC *braːɡ) – a kind of tree.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 柏
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 陌 (113)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 博陌切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pˠæk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pᵚak̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pak̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /paɨjk̚/
Li
Rong		 /pɐk̚/
Wang
Li		 /pɐk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pɐk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 柏
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bǎi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pæk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pˤrak/
English cypress

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 柏
Reading # 1/1
No. 197
Phonetic
component		 白
Rime
group		 鐸
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 伯
Old
Chinese		 /*praːɡ/

Definitions

柏

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Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

柏

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. oak
  2. (rare) Japanese nutmeg yew, kaya, Torreya nucifera

Readings

Noun

柏 ‎(hiragana かしわ, katakana カシワ, romaji kashiwa)

  1. oak

Proper noun

柏 ‎(hiragana かしわ, romaji Kashiwa)

  1. a place name, such as that of Kashiwa City in Chiba Prefecture
  2. A female given name

Korean

Hanja

柏 • ‎(baek) (hangeul 백, revised baek, McCune-Reischauer paek, Yale payk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

柏 (bách, bá)

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