柏

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See also: 栢
柏 U+67CF, 柏
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-67CF
← 柎
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 某 →

Translingual

Han character

Stroke order
9 strokes

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

simp. and trad.
 柏
alternative forms 栢
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Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (白) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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:
Note:
  • paak3 - Guangzhou, Hong Kong;
  • baak3 - Guangzhou.
Note:
  • peh/peeh - vernacular;
  • pek/piak - literary.
Rime
Character 柏
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 陌 (113)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 博陌切
Baxter paek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pˠæk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pᵚak̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/pak̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/paɨjk̚/
Li
Rong 		/pɐk̚/
Wang
Li 		/pɐk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/pɐk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bak1
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

  1. cypress
  2. Alternative form of 伯
  3. Alternative form of 迫
  4. (～國) Bai, Bo (an ancient state in modern Henan)
  5. (～市) Kashiwa City, a city in Japan
  6. a surname

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

柏

  1. Alternative form of 檗, used in 黃柏／黄柏 (huángbò).

References

Japanese

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Kanji

柏

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. oak
  2. (rare) Japanese nutmeg yew, kaya, Torreya nucifera

Readings

Noun

柏(かしわ) or 柏(カシワ) • (kashiwa) 

  1. oak

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.

Proper noun

柏(かしわ) • (Kashiwa) 

  1. Kashiwa (a city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan)
  2. a female given name

Korean

Hanja

柏 • (baek) (hangeul 백)

  1. Used in the names of certain trees

Vietnamese

Han character

柏: Hán Nôm readings: bách, bá

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References

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