勃

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See also: 艴
勃 U+52C3, 勃
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-52C3
← 勂
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 勄 →

Translingual

Han character

勃 (Kangxi radical 19, 力+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 十木大尸 (JDKS), four-corner 44427, composition ⿰孛力)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 147, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2351
  • Dae Jaweon: page 332, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 370, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+52C3

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 勃
2nd round simp. 孛
alternative forms 㪍
孛
渤
㔜
茀

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 勃
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (孛) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
誖 *pɯːds, *bɯːds, *bɯːd
悖 *bɯːds, *bɯːd
孛 *bɯːds, *bɯːd
哱 *pʰɯːd
馞 *pʰɯːd, *bɯːd
勃 *bɯːd
餑 *bɯːd
郣 *bɯːd
浡 *bɯːd
桲 *bɯːd
挬 *bɯːd
脖 *bɯːd
鵓 *bɯːd
渤 *bɯːd
綍 *pɯd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bɯːd) : phonetic 孛 (OC *bɯːds, *bɯːd, “power”) + semantic 力.

Pronunciation

Note: buêg8 - Chaozhou.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 勃
Mandarin Beijing /po³⁵/
Harbin /pɤ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /po⁴⁵/
Jinan /pə²¹³/
Qingdao /pə⁴²/
Zhengzhou /po²⁴/
Xi'an /po²¹/
Xining /pʰɔ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /puə¹³/
Lanzhou /pə⁵³/
Ürümqi /pɤ⁵¹/
Wuhan /pʰu²¹³/
Chengdu /po³¹/
Guiyang /pʰo²¹/
Kunming /pʰu³¹/
Nanjing /poʔ⁵/
Hefei /pʰəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /pəʔ⁵⁴/
Pingyao /pʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /pəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /bəʔ¹/
Suzhou /bəʔ³/
Hangzhou /bəʔ²/
Wenzhou /bø²¹³/
Hui Shexian /pʰɔʔ²¹/
Tunxi /po⁵/
Xiang Changsha /pʰu²⁴/
Xiangtan /pʰu²⁴/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /pʰut̚⁵/
Taoyuan /pʰut̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /put̚²/
Nanning /put̚²²/
Hong Kong /put̚²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /put̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /puoʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /pɔ²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /puak̚⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /fut̚⁵/
Rime
Character 勃
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 魂 (56)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 蒲没切
Baxter bwot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/buət̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/buot̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/buət̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/bwət̚/
Li
Rong 		/buət̚/
Wang
Li 		/buət̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/bʱuət̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bó
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		but6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 勃
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bó
Middle
Chinese 		‹ bwot ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁut/
English confused

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 勃
Reading # 1/1
No. 974
Phonetic
component 		孛
Rime
group 		物
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		勃
Old
Chinese 		/*bɯːd/

Definitions

勃

  1. exuberant; flourishing; vigorous
  2. suddenly (changing countenance)
  3. to push; to drive; to surge
  4. (obsolete) fine powder

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

勃

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. suddenness, something that happens suddenly
  2. rise
  3. Short for 勃牙利 (Burugaria, “Bulgaria”).

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

勃 (eumhun 노할 발 (nohal bal))

  1. Hanja form? of 발 (“rise”).

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

勃: Hán Nôm readings: bột

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