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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 130 +9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月人日水 (BOAE), four-corner 78247)

  1. stomach, belly, abdomen
  2. inside

References

  • KangXi: page 990, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29722
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1442, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2097, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8179

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*brɯɡ
*puɡs, *puɡ
*pʰuɡs, *buɡs, *pʰɯːɡ, *pʰuɡ
*buɡs, *buɡ
*buɡs, *buɡ
*buɡs, *puɡ
*brɯɡ, *buɡ
*puɡ
*puɡ, *buɡ
*pʰuɡ
*pʰuɡ, *buɡ
*buɡ
*buɡ
*buɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *puɡ) : semantic  (meat, body) + phonetic  (OC *buɡ) – a part of the body. ⺼ since simplified to 月.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (4)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/piuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/piuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/puwk̚/
Li
Rong
/piuk̚/
Wang
Li
/pĭuk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
fu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjuwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*p(r)uk/
English belly

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. 3543
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*puɡ/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
はら
Grade: 6
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana はら, romaji hara)

  1. belly

Derived terms

See also

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

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(phúc, phục)

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