博

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See also: 愽
博 U+535A, 博
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-535A
← 卙
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 卛 →

博 U+2F82E, 博
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F82E
← 卑
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 即 →

Translingual

Stroke order
12 strokes

Han character

博 (Kangxi radical 24, 十+10, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十戈月戈 (JIBI), four-corner 43046, composition ⿰十尃)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 157, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2761
  • Dae Jaweon: page 360, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 66, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+535A

Bala

Etymology

Cognate with Manchu ᠪᠣᠣ (boo).

Noun

博 (bo)

  1. family

References

  • “The Only Known Text from Bala, an Extinct Tungusic Language”, in Studia Orientalia Electronica‎, volume 9, number 1, 2021, pages 173–191

Chinese

trad. 博
simp. # 博
2nd round simp. ⿰十⿺专丶
alternative forms 卜 (poh) Hokkien

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (甫) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
豧 *pʰoːs, *pʰa, *pʰas
縛 *baːɡs, *baɡ
逋 *paː
餔 *paː, *baːs
晡 *paː
庯 *paː
陠 *paː, *pʰaː
鵏 *paː, *baːs
峬 *paː
誧 *paː, *pʰaː, *pʰaːʔ, *pʰaːs
秿 *paː, *pʰa, *baʔ
鯆 *paː, *pʰaː, *paʔ
補 *paːʔ
圃 *paːʔ, *paːs
鋪 *pʰaː, *pʰaːs, *pʰa
痡 *pʰaː, *pʰa
浦 *pʰaːʔ
烳 *pʰaːʔ
溥 *pʰaːʔ, *paːɡ
悑 *pʰaːs
酺 *baː
匍 *baː
蜅 *baː, *paʔ
脯 *baː, *paʔ
葡 *baː
蒱 *baː
蒲 *baː
簿 *baːʔ, *baːɡ
捕 *baːs
哺 *baːs
簠 *pa, *paʔ, *pʰas
甫 *paʔ
黼 *paʔ
莆 *paʔ
俌 *paʔ, *pʰaʔ
郙 *paʔ, *pʰa
傅 *paɡs
搏 *paɡs, *paːɡ, *pʰaːɡ
麱 *pʰa
尃 *pʰa
榑 *ba
輔 *baʔ
鬴 *baʔ
賻 *baɡs
博 *paːɡ
髆 *paːɡ
鎛 *paːɡ
猼 *paːɡ
餺 *paːɡ
簙 *paːɡ
鑮 *paːɡ, *baːɡ
欂 *paːɡ, *baɡ, *breːɡ
蒪 *pʰaːɡ
膊 *pʰaːɡ
薄 *baːɡ
礡 *baːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *paːɡ) : semantic 十 + phonetic 尃 (OC *pʰa).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • phok/pok - literary;
  • poh - vernacular (“to try without certainty; maybe”).
Rime
Character 博
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 唐 (104)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 補各切
Baxter pak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pwɑk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pʷɑk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/puɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pwak̚/
Li
Rong 		/puɑk̚/
Wang
Li 		/puɑk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/pwɑk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bok3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 博
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bó
Middle
Chinese 		‹ pak ›
Old
Chinese 		/*pˁak/
English broad

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 博
Reading # 1/1
No. 3474
Phonetic
component 		甫
Rime
group 		鐸
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		博
Old
Chinese 		/*paːɡ/

Definitions

博

  1. abundant; plentiful; rich
  2. wide; broad
  3. to thoroughly understand; to be well versed in
  4. to win; to court
    以博歡心／以博欢心  ―  yǐ bó huānxīn  ―  in order to win somebody's favour
    博同情 [Cantonese]  ―  bok3 tung4 cing4   ―  to gain somebody's sympathy
  5. (historical) Liubo (an ancient Chinese board game)
    alt. forms: 簙 (bó)
  6. to gamble; to play games
  7. (Hokkien) to try without certainty (hoping to get some benefit by chance)
  8. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) maybe; perhaps; probably
  9. Short for 博覽／博览 (bólǎn, “expo”).
  10. Short for 博客 (bókè, “blog”).
  11. Short for 博士 (bóshì, “doctoral degree”).
  12. a surname

Synonyms

  • (maybe):

Compounds

Japanese

See also 博す, and 博する
Shinjitai 博
Kyūjitai
博󠄁
博+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
博󠄄
博+&#xE0104;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

博

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. wide, broad, extensive
  2. gambling

Readings

Compounds

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
博
はく
Grade: 4
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 博 (MC pak).

Suffix

博(はく) • (-haku) 

  1. doctor, PhD
    医(い)博(はく) ― ihaku ― doctor of medicine
  2. exposition, fair
    万国(ばんこく)博(はく) ― bankokuhaku ― international exposition

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
博
ひろし
Grade: 4
nanori

Proper noun

博(ひろし) • (Hiroshi) 

  1. a male given name

References

  1. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 367 (paper), page 233 (digital)

Korean

Hanja

博 (eumhun 넓을 박 (neolbeul bak))

  1. Hanja form? of 박 (“wide; broad”).

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

博: Hán Nôm readings: bác, mác, bạc, vác

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