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布

布

See also: 佈

Translingual

Han character

布 (radical 50 巾+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 大中月 (KLB), four-corner 40227, composition ⿸𠂇巾)

References

  • KangXi: page 328, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8778
  • Dae Jaweon: page 633, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 728, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5E03

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 布

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 布
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 愽故切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /puoH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /puoH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /poH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pɔH/
Li
Rong		 /poH/
Wang
Li		 /puH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /puoH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 布 布
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bù bù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ puH › ‹ puH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pˤa-s/ /*pˤa-s/
English cloth cloth

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 布
Reading # 1/1
No. 3495
Phonetic
component		 父
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*paːs/

Definitions

布

  1. cotton cloth, textiles
    棉布 (miánbù, “cotton cloth”)
  2. to announce, to proclaim
    宣布 (xuānbù, “to declare, to proclaim, to announce”)
  3. to spread
    遍布 (“to be found everywhere, to be spread all over”)

Japanese

Kanji

布

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Noun

布 ‎(hiragana ぬの, romaji nuno)

  1. cloth

Korean

Hanja

布 • ‎(po) (hangeul 포)

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Vietnamese

Han character

布 (bố, bô, buá, vố, vú, thân, thần, thặn, thận)

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Etymology

Historical forms of the character 布
Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (父) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
抪 *paː, *paːs
布 *paːs
佈 *paːs
怖 *pʰaːs
斧 *paʔ
父 *paʔ, *baʔ
蚥 *paʔ, *baʔ
滏 *baʔ
釜 *baʔ

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