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Translingual

Han character

(radical 64 +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手竹日 (QHA), four-corner 56000, composition)

  1. clap, tap, beat
  2. beat or rhythm

References

  • KangXi: page 425, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11952
  • Dae Jaweon: page 773, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1854, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+62CD

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*pʰraːɡs, *pʰraːɡ
*pʰraːɡs, *mbraːd
*pʰaːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
*pʰaːɡ
*baːɡ
*baːɡ
*tʰaːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
*prɯɡ
*praːɡ
*praːɡ
*praːɡ
*praːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
*praːɡ
*praːɡ
*pʰraːɡ
*pʰraːɡ
*pʰraːɡ, *ɡeːwʔ
*mpʰraːɡ, *mbraːɡ
*braːɡ
*braːɡ
*braːɡ
*braːɡ
*mbraːɡ
*mbraːɡ
*mbraːɡ
*mbraːɡ
*mbraːɡ
*mbraːɡ
*mbraːɡ
*praɡ, *preɡ
*ɦmreːɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (2)
Final () (113)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pʰˠæk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/pʰᵚak̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/pʰak̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pʰaɨjk̚/
Li
Rong
/pʰɐk̚/
Wang
Li
/pʰɐk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pʰɐk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
po
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
pāi
Middle
Chinese
‹ phæk ›
Old
Chinese
/*mə-pʰˤrak/
English to strike

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. 199
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pʰraːɡ/

Definitions

  1. to aggressively whack with (the palm of) the hand
    尻川 [Min Nan]   phah kha-chhng [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]   to spank someone's bottom
  2. to whack or beat with a stick
  3. to take (a picture)
  4. (Min) to call on the phone
    電話 / 电话 [Min Nan]   phah tiān-ōe [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]   to call someone on the phone
    手機 / 手机 [Min Nan]   phah chhiú-ki [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]   to call someone's cellphone

Synonyms

  • (to whack): ()
  • (to take a picture): (Cantonese) (yǐng)
  • (to call on the phone): (Min Nan) , (Mandarin, Cantonese) ()

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
はく
Grade: S
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese (phæk).

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana はく, romaji haku)

  1. (music) beat
  2. (phonology) mora

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  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

Korean

Hanja

(bak) (hangeul , revised bak, McCune-Reischauer pak, Yale pak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(phếch, phách, vạch, phạch, phệch)

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