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Translingual
Han character
Stroke order
柏 (Kangxi radical 75, 木 +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木竹日 (DHA ), four-corner 46900 , composition ⿰木 白 )
Derived characters
References
Kangxi Dictionary: page 518 , character 22
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14617
Dae Jaweon: page 906, character 21
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1185, character 3
Unihan data for U+67CF
Chinese
Glyph origin
Old Chinese
怕
*pʰraːɡs, *pʰraːɡ
帕
*pʰraːɡs, *mbraːd
粕
*pʰaːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
胉
*pʰaːɡ
泊
*baːɡ
箔
*baːɡ
魄
*tʰaːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
皕
*prɯɡ
伯
*praːɡ
百
*praːɡ
迫
*praːɡ
敀
*praːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
柏
*praːɡ
湐
*praːɡ
拍
*pʰraːɡ
珀
*pʰraːɡ
皛
*pʰraːɡ, *ɡeːwʔ
洦
*mpʰraːɡ, *mbraːɡ
白
*braːɡ
帛
*braːɡ
舶
*braːɡ
鮊
*braːɡ
陌
*mbraːɡ
帞
*mbraːɡ
袹
*mbraːɡ
蛨
*mbraːɡ
貊
*mbraːɡ
佰
*mbraːɡ
銆
*mbraːɡ
碧
*praɡ, *preɡ
咟
*ɦmreːɡ
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声 , OC *praːɡ ): semantic 木 ( “ tree ” ) + phonetic 白 ( OC *braːɡ ) .
Pronunciation 1
Note :
Mainland:
bó - standard only in foreign names, e.g. 柏林 , 柏拉圖 / 柏拉图 ;
bǎi - used for other senses.
Note :
paak3 - Guangzhou, Hong Kong;
baak3 - Guangzhou.
Note :
ba6 - vernacular;
beh6 - literary.
Note :
peh/peeh - vernacular;
pek/piak - literary.
Baxter –Sagart system 1.1 (2014 )
Character
柏
Reading #
1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
bǎi
Middle Chinese
‹ pæk ›
Old Chinese
/*pˁrak/
English
cypress
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
柏
Reading #
1/1
No.
197
Phonetic component
白
Rime group
鐸
Rime subdivision
0
Corresponding MC rime
伯
Old Chinese
/*praːɡ/
Definitions
柏
cypress
alternative form of 伯
alternative form of 迫
( ~國 ) Bai , Bo (an ancient state in modern Henan )
( ~市 ) Kashiwa City , a city in Japan
a surname
Compounds
Pronunciation 2
Definitions
柏
alternative form of 檗 , used in 黃柏 / 黄柏 (huángbò )
References
Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典 ), A01907
“柏 ”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database) , 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong ), 2014–
李如龙 , 刘福铸 , 吴华英 , 黄国城 (2019 ) “栢 ”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press , →ISBN , page 264 .
Japanese
Kanji
柏
(Jinmeiyō kanji )
oak
( rare ) Japanese nutmeg yew , kaya , Torreya nucifera
Readings
Compounds
Etymology
カシワ on Japanese Wikipedia
Noun
柏( かしわ ) or 柏( カシワ ) • (kashiwa )
daimyo oak , Quercus dentata
Synonym: 葉柏 ( hagashiwa )
Usage notes
As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana , especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as カシワ .
Derived terms
Proper noun
柏( かしわ ) • (Kashiwa )
Kashiwa (a city in Chiba Prefecture , Japan )
a female given name
Korean
Hanja
柏 • (baek ) (hangeul 백 )
Used in the names of certain trees
Vietnamese
Han character
柏 : Hán Nôm readings: bách , bá
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