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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 木廿金人 (DTCO), four-corner 42934, composition)

  1. simple, honest
  2. plain
  3. rough

References

  • KangXi: page 551, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15495
  • Dae Jaweon: page 940, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1291, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6A38

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*baː, *pʰroːɡ, *poːɡ, *boːɡ
*pʰroːɡ
*pʰroːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
*broːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
*poːɡ, *buːɡ
*poːɡ
*poːɡ
*poːɡ, *boɡ
*poːɡ
*poːɡ
*pʰoːɡ
*boːɡ, *buːɡ
*boːɡ, *puɡ
*boːɡ
*buːɡ
*boɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *baː, *pʰroːɡ, *poːɡ, *boːɡ) : semantic  (wood) + phonetic  (OC *boːɡ, *puɡ).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
Initial () (3) (3) (1) (2)
Final () (23) (3) (3) (10)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open Open
Division () I I I II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/buo/ /buk̚/ /puk̚/ /pʰˠʌk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/buo/ /buk̚/ /puk̚/ /pʰᵚɔk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/bo/ /buk̚/ /puk̚/ /pʰɔk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bɔ/ /bəwk̚/ /pəwk̚/ /pʰaɨwk̚/
Li
Rong
/bo/ /buk̚/ /puk̚/ /pʰɔk̚/
Wang
Li
/bu/ /buk̚/ /puk̚/ /pʰɔk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱuo/ /bʱuk̚/ /puk̚/ /pʰɔk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
bu po
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ phæwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*pʰˤrok/
English unworked wood

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 # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
No. 9879 9881 9885 9894
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*baː/ /*pʰroːɡ/ /*poːɡ/ /*boːɡ/

Definitions

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References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(phác, bốc)

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