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Translingual

Han character

(radical 145 +7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 中戈十月 (LIJB), four-corner 33227, composition)

  1. mend, patch, fix, repair, restore

References

  • KangXi: page 1117, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34320
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1583, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3093, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+88DC

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*pʰoːs, *pʰa, *pʰas
*baːɡs, *baɡ
*paː
*paː, *baːs
*paː
*paː
*paː, *pʰaː
*paː, *baːs
*paː
*paː, *pʰaː, *pʰaːʔ, *pʰaːs
秿 *paː, *pʰa, *baʔ
*paː, *pʰaː, *paʔ
*paːʔ
*paːʔ, *paːs
*pʰaː, *pʰaːs, *pʰa
*pʰaː, *pʰa
*pʰaːʔ
*pʰaːʔ
*pʰaːʔ, *paːɡ
*pʰaːs
*baː
*baː
*baː, *paʔ
*baː, *paʔ
*baː
*baː
*baː
簿 *baːʔ, *baːɡ
*baːs
*baːs
*pa, *paʔ, *pʰas
*paʔ
*paʔ
*paʔ
*paʔ, *pʰaʔ
*paʔ, *pʰa
*paɡs
*paɡs, *paːɡ, *pʰaːɡ
*pʰa
*pʰa
*ba
*baʔ
*baʔ
*baɡs
*paːɡ
*paːɡ
*paːɡ
*paːɡ
*paːɡ
*paːɡ
*paːɡ, *baːɡ
*paːɡ, *baɡ, *breːɡ
*pʰaːɡ
*pʰaːɡ
*baːɡ
*baːɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/puoX/
Pan
Wuyun
/puoX/
Shao
Rongfen
/poX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pɔX/
Li
Rong
/poX/
Wang
Li
/puX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/puoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ puX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[Cə]-pˤaʔ/
English to patch

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. 3420
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*paːʔ/

Verb

  1. to mend; to repair; to fix
    / [Cantonese]   bou2 saam1 [Jyutping]   to mend clothes
  2. to make up for a deficiency
    /    gài  

Compounds

  • 補丁补丁
  • 補上补上
  • 補交补交
  • 補休补休
  • 補假补假
  • 補偏救弊补偏救弊
  • 補償补偿 (bǔcháng)
  • 補償貿易补偿贸易
  • 補充补充 (bǔchōng)
  • 補助补助 (bǔzhù)
  • 補助貨幣补助货币
  • 補台补台
  • 補品补品 (bǔpǐn)
  • 補回來补回来
  • 補報补报
  • 補差补差
  • 補情补情
  • 補情兒补情儿
  • 補救补救 (bǔjiù)

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Korean

Hanja

(bo) (hangeul , revised bo, McCune-Reischauer po, Yale po)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(bổ, , bỏ, , bủa, , vỏ, bồ)

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