坡

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See also: 坂
坡 U+5761, 坡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5761
← 坠
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 坢 →

Translingual

Han character

坡 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 土木竹水 (GDHE), four-corner 44147, composition ⿰土皮)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 226, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4966
  • Dae Jaweon: page 461, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 436, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5761

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 坡

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (皮) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
陂 *pral, *prals
詖 *pral, *prals
彼 *pralʔ
柀 *pralʔ
佊 *pralʔ, *prals
貱 *prals
跛 *prals, *paːlʔ
披 *pʰral, *pʰralʔ
鈹 *pʰral
帔 *pʰral, *pʰrals
鮍 *pʰral
耚 *pʰral
狓 *pʰral
翍 *pʰral
旇 *pʰral, *brals
秛 *pʰral, *pʰrals
紴 *pʰralʔ, *paːl
皮 *bral
疲 *bral
被 *bralʔ, *brals
髲 *brals
鞁 *brals
骳 *mbralʔ
波 *paːl
碆 *paːl, *baːl
菠 *paːl
簸 *paːlʔ, *paːls
駊 *paːlʔ, *pʰaːlʔ
頗 *pʰaːl, *pʰaːlʔ, *pʰaːls
坡 *pʰaːl
玻 *pʰaːl
破 *pʰaːls
婆 *baːl
蔢 *baːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰaːl) : semantic 土 (“dirt”) + phonetic 皮 (OC *bral).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 坡
Mandarin Beijing /pʰo⁵⁵/
Harbin /pʰɤ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /pʰo²¹/
Jinan /pʰə²¹³/
Qingdao /pʰə²¹³/
Zhengzhou /pʰo²⁴/
Xi'an /pʰo²¹/
Xining /pʰɔ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /pʰuə⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /pʰə³¹/
Ürümqi /pʰɤ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /pʰo⁵⁵/
Chengdu /pʰo⁵⁵/
/po⁵⁵/
Guiyang /pʰo⁵⁵/
Kunming /pʰo⁴⁴/
Nanjing /pʰo³¹/
Hefei /pʰʊ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /pʰɤ¹¹/
Pingyao /pʰei¹³/ 上～
/pʰɔ¹³/
Hohhot /pʰɤ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /pʰu⁵³/
Suzhou /pʰu⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /pʰo³³/
Wenzhou /pu³³/
Hui Shexian /po³¹/
Tunxi /pʰo¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /pʰo³³/
Xiangtan /pʰo³³/
Gan Nanchang /po⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /po⁴⁴/
/pʰo⁴⁴/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /pɔ⁵³/
Nanning /pʰɔ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /pɔ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /pʰo⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /pʰo⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /pʰɔ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /po³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /fo²³/
Rime
Character 坡
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 戈 (95)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 滂禾切
Baxter pha
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pʰuɑ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pʰuɑ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/pʰuɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pʰwa/
Li
Rong 		/pʰuɑ/
Wang
Li 		/pʰuɑ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/pʰuɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		pō
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		po1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 坡
Reading # 1/1
No. 9728
Phonetic
component 		皮
Rime
group 		歌
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		頗
Old
Chinese 		/*pʰaːl/

Definitions

坡

  1. slope; bank; hillside
  2. to slant; to incline; to tilt
  3. (Taiwan, Hong Kong) Short for 新加坡 (Xīnjiāpō, “Singapore”).
    坡幣／坡币  ―  pōbì  ―  Singapore dollar

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

坡

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

坡 • (pa) (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune–Reischauer p'a)

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Vietnamese

Han character

坡: Hán Nôm readings: pha, bờ, phơ, da

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