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霸

霸

See also: 覇

Translingual

Han character

霸 (radical 173 雨+13, 21 strokes, cangjie input 一月廿十月 (MBTJB), four-corner 10527, composition ⿱⻗⿰革月)

  1. tyranny, rule by might rather than right
  2. hegemon
  3. (archaic) alternative form of 魄

References

  • KangXi: page 1379, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42490
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1888, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4077, character 19
  • Unihan data for U+9738

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 霸

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (霸) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
壩 *praːɡs
霸 *praːɡs
灞 *praːɡs
欛 *praːɡs

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 霸
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 麻 (98)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 必駕切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pˠaH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pᵚaH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /paH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /paɨH/
Li
Rong		 /paH/
Wang
Li		 /paH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /paH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bà
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 霸 霸
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bà pò
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pæH › ‹ phæk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pˤrak-s/ /*[pʰˤ]rak/
English have hegemony new moon

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 霸
Reading # 1/1
No. 181
Phonetic
component		 霸
Rime
group		 暮
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 霸
Old
Chinese		 /*praːɡs/

Definitions

霸

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Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

霸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

霸 • ‎(pae, pa, baek) (hangeul 패, 파, 백, revised pae, pa, baek, McCune-Reischauer p'ae, p'a, paek, Yale phay, pha, payk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

霸 (bá, phách)

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