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Translingual

Han character

(radical 87 +4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹人日山 (HOAU), four-corner 77231, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 688, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19662
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1101, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2031, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+722C

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*praː
*praː
*praː, *braːʔ
*praː
*praː, *pʰraː
*praː, *pʰraː
*praː, *pʰraː
*praː
*praːʔ
*praːs, *baʔ
*praːs
*praːs
*pʰraː
*pʰraː
*pʰraː
*pʰraːs
*braː
*braː
*braː, *braːs, *braːs
*braːʔ, *braːs
*braːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *braː) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *praː).

Etymology

Cognate with (OC *baː).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (98)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bˠa/
Pan
Wuyun
/bᵚa/
Shao
Rongfen
/ba/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/baɨ/
Li
Rong
/ba/
Wang
Li
/ba/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱa/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹  ›
Old
Chinese
/*[b]ˤra/
English climb on all fours

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. 117
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*braː/

Definitions

  1. to crawl; to creep
  2. to climb; to ascend; to get up
  3. to scramble

Compounds

  • 仰爬
  • 叉爬子
  • 吃裡爬外吃里爬外
  • 搔背爬
  • 攀爬
  • 櫛垢爬癢栉垢爬痒
  • 爬上爬下
  • 爬下
  • 爬出
  • 爬升
  • 爬坡
  • 爬孤棚
  • 爬山 (páshān)
  • 爬山虎
  • 爬山調爬山调
  • 爬拉
  • 爬推
  • 爬格子
  • 爬梳
  • 爬梳剔抉
  • 爬樹爬树
  • 爬櫛爬栉
  • 爬沙
  • 爬泳
  • 爬灰
  • 爬牆虎爬墙虎
  • 爬犁
  • 爬癢爬痒
  • 爬竿
  • 爬羅爬罗
  • 爬羅剔抉爬罗剔抉
  • 爬耳搔腮
  • 爬船
  • 爬蟲爬虫 (páchóng)
  • 爬行 (páxíng)
  • 爬行動物爬行动物
  • 爬蹉
  • 爬高枝兒爬高枝儿
  • 繃爬吊拷绷爬吊拷
  • 跪爬
  • 連爬帶滾连爬带滚
  • 連跌帶爬连跌带爬
  • 順竿兒爬顺竿儿爬

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(pa) (hangeul )

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Vietnamese

Han character

(ba, , , )

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