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報
報
See also: 报
Translingual
Han character
報 (radical 32 土+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土十尸中水 (GJSLE), four-corner 47447, composition ⿰幸𠬝)
References
- KangXi: page 234, character 5
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5275
- Dae Jaweon: page 471, character 13
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 466, character 4
- Unihan data for U+5831
Chinese
| trad. | 報 | |
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| simp. | 报 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 報
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Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 㚔 (“handcuffs”) + 𠬝 (“to subdue”) – to convict; to punish; to declare guilty.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): bou3
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): po
- Min Dong (BUC): bó̤
- Min Nan (POJ): pò
- Wu (Wiktionary): pau (T2)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄠˋ
- Wade-Giles: pao4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: baw
- IPA (key): /pɑʊ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: bou3
- Yale: bou
- Cantonese Pinyin: bou3
- IPA (key): /pou̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: po
- Hakka Romanization System: bo
- Hagfa Pinyim: bo4
- IPA: /po⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: bó̤
- IPA (key): /pɔ²¹³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pò
- Tâi-lô: pò
- Phofsit Daibuun: poix
- IPA (Xiamen): /pɤ²¹/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /pɤ⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɤ²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /po¹¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /pɤ²¹/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: pau (T2)
- IPA (key): /pɔ³⁴/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
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| Character | 報 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 豪 (89) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 博耗切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/pɑuH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/pɑuH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/pɑuH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/pawH/ |
| Li Rong |
/pɑuH/ |
| Wang Li |
/pɑuH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/pɑuH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
bào |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 報 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
bào |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ pawH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*pˤuk-s/ |
| English | repay |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 報 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 329 |
| Phonetic component |
報 |
| Rime group |
奧 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
報 |
| Old Chinese |
/*puːɡs/ |
Definitions
報
- † to judge
- to avenge; to take revenge
- to repay; to requite; to recompense
- divine retribution; karma; nemesis
- to announce; to inform; to report; to tell
- report; information
- newspaper (Classifier: 份 m; 張／张 m)
- bulletin; newsletter; report
- journal; periodical
- Short for 電報／电报 (diànbào, “telegram”).
Compounds
Derived terms from 報
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Japanese
Kanji
報
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Noun
Korean
Hanja
報 • (bo, bu) (hangeul 보, 부, revised bo, bu, McCune-Reischauer po, pu, Yale po, pu)
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Vietnamese
Han character
報 (báo)
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