Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

父 (radical 88 父+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 金大 (CK), four-corner 8040₀)

1. Kangxi radical #88, ⽗ ‎(“father”).

See also

• 交

References

• KangXi: page 690, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19721
• Dae Jaweon: page 1103, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2039, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7236

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 父
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) – A hand holding a stone, referring to a man working with a stone axe.

Etymology

Old and Middle Chinese word for “father”: 父 (OC *paʔ, *baʔ).

Regular development from Middle Chinese would lead to the labiodental fù in Mandarin, but the colloquial word resisted the sound changes and is now written as 爸 (bà), with the 巴 (bā) phonetic component added to it to indicate the unchanged bilabial initial.

Pronunciation

Definitions

父

1. father

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. father

Readings

• Goon: ぶ (bu) (non-Jōyō reading), ふ (fu)
• Kan’on: ふ (fu)
• Kan’yōon: ほ (ho) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kun: ちち (chichi)

Compounds

Derived terms

Antonyms

• 母

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) ちち​ [chìchíꜜ] (Odaka - [2])^[1][2]
• (Tokyo) ち​ち [chíꜜchì] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [t͡ɕi̥t͡ɕi]

Noun

父 ‎(hiragana ちち, romaji chichi)

1. father
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 20, poem 4402)

     知波夜布留 賀美乃美佐賀尓 奴佐麻都里 伊波布伊能知波 意毛知々我多米

   • 931–938, Wamyō Ruijushō, book 1, page 115:

     父爲考、和名知々、日本紀私記云加曾

Etymology 2

From chichi. Eastern dialect.

Noun

父 ‎(hiragana しし, romaji shishi)

1. father
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 20, poem 4376)

     多妣由岐尓 由久等之良受弖 阿母志々尓 己等麻乎佐受弖 伊麻叙久夜之気

   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 20, poem 4378)

     都久比夜波 須具波由気等毛 阿母志々可 多麻乃須我多波 和須例西奈布母

Etymology 3

From chichi.

Noun

父 ‎(hiragana てて, romaji tete)

1. father
   • 1603–1604, Nippo Jisho (page 649)

     Tete. l, chichi. テテ. まはは, チチ (てて. または, 父) 父親.

Etymology 4

From chichi.

Noun

父 ‎(hiragana とと, romaji toto)

1. a childish term for one's father; daddy
   • 1603–1604, Nippo Jisho (page 670)

     Toto. トト (とと) 父. これは子どもの使う語である.

Etymology 5

/kaso2/: *[kasə] > [kaso].

Noun

父 ‎(hiragana かそ, romaji kaso)

1. father
   • 931–938, Wamyō Ruijushō, book 1, page 115:

     父爲考、和名知々、日本紀私記云加曾

Etymology 6

From kaso. Medial -s- voices to /kazo/.

Noun

父 ‎(hiragana かぞ, romaji kazo)

1. father

References

1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
2. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

• Doi, Tadao (1603–1604) Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 978-4-00-080021-1, published 1980.
• Minamoto, Shitagō; Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938) Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, ISBN 978-4-653-00507-0, published 1968.
• Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada; Rikio Kudō; Masao Ōtani; Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 4: Man’yōshū 4 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 978-4-00-240004-4, published 2003.

Korean

Hanja

父 • ‎(bu, bo)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 부, 보 (revised: bu, bo, McCune-Reischauer: pu, po, Yale: pu, po)

• Name (hangeul): 아비, 자 (revised: abi, ja, McCune-Reischauer: abi, cha, Yale: api, ca)

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Vietnamese

Han character

父 (phụ, bố)

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