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Translingual

Han character

(radical 140 +10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿水戈月 (TEIB), four-corner 44127, composition)

  1. bulrush, cattail, reed
  2. vine
  3. various rivers and places

References

  • KangXi: page 1049, character 37
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31611
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1511, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3269, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+84B2

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*pʰoːs, *pʰa, *pʰas
*baːɡs, *baɡ
*paː
*paː, *baːs
*paː
*paː
*paː, *pʰaː
*paː, *baːs
*paː
*paː, *pʰaː, *pʰaːʔ, *pʰaːs
秿 *paː, *pʰa, *baʔ
*paː, *pʰaː, *paʔ
*paːʔ
*paːʔ, *paːs
*pʰaː, *pʰaːs, *pʰa
*pʰaː, *pʰa
*pʰaːʔ
*pʰaːʔ
*pʰaːʔ, *paːɡ
*pʰaːs
*baː
*baː
*baː, *paʔ
*baː, *paʔ
*baː
*baː
*baː
簿 *baːʔ, *baːɡ
*baːs
*baːs
*pa, *paʔ, *pʰas
*paʔ
*paʔ
*paʔ
*paʔ, *pʰaʔ
*paʔ, *pʰa
*paɡs
*paɡs, *paːɡ, *pʰaːɡ
*pʰa
*pʰa
*ba
*baʔ
*baʔ
*baɡs
*paːɡ
*paːɡ
*paːɡ
*paːɡ
*paːɡ
*paːɡ
*paːɡ, *baːɡ
*paːɡ, *baɡ, *breːɡ
*pʰaːɡ
*pʰaːɡ
*baːɡ
*baːɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (23)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/buo/
Pan
Wuyun
/buo/
Shao
Rongfen
/bo/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bɔ/
Li
Rong
/bo/
Wang
Li
/bu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱuo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ bu ›
Old
Chinese
/*[b]ˤa/
English part of personal name

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. 3441
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*baː/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 伊蒲饌伊蒲馔
  • 唐菖蒲
  • 截蒲為牒截蒲为牒
  • 扁蒲
  • 扇葉蒲葵扇叶蒲葵
  • 望杏瞻蒲
  • 樗蒲
  • 石菖蒲 (shíchāngpú)
  • 編蒲编蒲
  • 茅蒲
  • 菖蒲 (chāngpú)
  • 菖蒲蓮菖蒲莲
  • 菖蒲酒
  • 蒲伏
  • 蒲公英 (púgōngyīng)
  • 蒲劇蒲剧 (pújù)
  • 蒲劍蒲剑
  • 蒲包兒蒲包儿
  • 蒲團蒲团 (pútuán)
  • 蒲坂
  • 蒲城
  • 蒲墩兒蒲墩儿
  • 蒲戲蒲戏
  • 蒲扇
  • 蒲扇價增蒲扇价增
  • 蒲月
  • 蒲服
  • 蒲松齡蒲松龄
  • 蒲柳
  • 蒲柳之姿
  • 蒲桃
  • 蒲棒
  • 蒲江縣蒲江县
  • 蒲津
  • 蒲牒寫書蒲牒写书
  • 蒲牢
  • 蒲瓜
  • 蒲甘
  • 蒲甸兒蒲甸儿
  • 蒲福風級蒲福风级
  • 蒲窩子蒲窝子
  • 蒲笨車蒲笨车
  • 蒲節蒲节
  • 蒲籃蒲篮
  • 蒲絨蒲绒
  • 蒲羅蒲罗
  • 蒲艾
  • 蒲草
  • 蒲萄
  • 蒲葵 (púkuí)
  • 蒲葵扇
  • 蒲蘆蒲芦
  • 蒲蠻蒲蛮
  • 蒲觴蒲觞
  • 蒲車蒲车
  • 蒲輪蒲轮
  • 蒲邑三善
  • 蒲關蒲关
  • 蒲阪
  • 蒲隆地
  • 蒲鞋
  • 蒲鞭
  • 蒲鞭不施
  • 蒲鞭不用
  • 蒲鞭之政
  • 蒲鞭示辱
  • 蒲鞵
  • 鞭蒲
  • 香蒲

References


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. bulrush, reed

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(po) (hangeul , revised po, McCune-Reischauer p'o, Yale pho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(bồ, , mồ)

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