庖

Translingual

Han character

庖 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 戈心口山 (IPRU), four-corner 0021₂, composition ⿸广包)

1. kitchen
2. cooking, cuisine

Derived characters

• 𩎾, 𠝇

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 344, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9266
• Dae Jaweon: page 653, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 879, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5E96

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 庖
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bruː) : semantic 广 (“house”) + phonetic 包 (OC *pruː).

Pronunciation

Definitions

庖

1. (literary) kitchen

   • 庖有肥肉，廄有肥馬，民有飢色，野有餓莩，此率獸而食人也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     庖有肥肉，厩有肥马，民有饥色，野有饿莩，此率兽而食人也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Páo yǒu féi ròu, jiù yǒu féi mǎ, mín yǒu jī sè, yě yǒu èpiǎo, cǐ shuài shòu ér shí rén yě.

     In your kitchen there is fat meat; in your stables there are fat horses. But your people have the look of hunger, and on the wilds there are those who have died of famine. This is leading on beasts to devour men.

2. (literary) chef; cook

   • 良庖歲更刀，割也；族庖月更刀，折也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     良庖岁更刀，割也；族庖月更刀，折也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE

     Liáng páo suì gēng dāo, gē yě; zú páo yuè gēng dāo, zhé yě.

     A good cook changes his knife every year; (it may have been injured) in cutting - an ordinary cook changes his every month - (it may have been) broken.

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ほう (hō)
• Kun: くりや (kuriya, 庖)

Korean

Hanja

庖 (eum 포 (po))

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Vietnamese

Han character

庖: Hán Nôm readings: bào

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References

• Nom Foundation