潑

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See also: 泼 and 溌
潑 U+6F51, 潑
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6F51
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 潒 →

Translingual

Traditional 潑
Shinjitai
(extended) 		溌
Simplified 泼

Han character

潑 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 水弓人水 (ENOE), four-corner 32147, composition ⿰氵發)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 648, character 34
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18225
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1058, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1750, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+6F51

Chinese

trad. 潑
simp. 泼
alternative forms 𣸍

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (發) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
廢 *pads
癈 *pads
橃 *pads, *bad
撥 *paːd
鱍 *paːd, *pʰaːd
襏 *paːd
驋 *paːd
鏺 *pʰaːd
潑 *pʰaːd
醱 *pʰaːd

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • pua5 - vernacular;
  • puah6/puoh6 - literary.
Note:
  • phoah - vernacular (“to pour; to splatter; to fan; spell”);
  • phoat - literary.
    Rime
    Character 潑
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 滂 (2)
    Final (韻) 末 (64)
    Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
    Openness (開合) Closed
    Division (等) I
    Fanqie 普活切
    Baxter phat
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/pʰuɑt̚/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/pʰʷɑt̚/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/pʰuɑt̚/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/pʰwat̚/
    Li
    Rong         		/pʰuɑt̚/
    Wang
    Li         		/pʰuɑt̚/
    Bernhard
    Karlgren         		/pʰuɑt̚/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		po
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		put3
    Zhengzhang system (2003)
    Character 潑
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 2837
    Phonetic
    component         		發
    Rime
    group         		月
    Rime
    subdivision         		1
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		鏺
    Old
    Chinese         		/*pʰaːd/
    Notes 廣韻從癹，集韻作此

    Definitions

    潑

    1. to pour; to splash
    2. to submerge; to drown
    3. to brew (tea); to make (tea)
    4. † wild and unreasonable
    5. † fierce and bold
    6. † bad; poor
    7. (Hokkien, intransitive) to splatter; to splash
    8. (Xiamen Hokkien) to fan
    9. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) Classifier for short periods of an event.
      一潑雨／一泼雨 [Hokkien]  ―  chi̍t phoah hō͘ [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  a brief spell of rain
    Synonyms
    • (to brew): 撥／拨 (bō)
    • (fierce and bold): 凶悍 (xiōnghàn)

    Compounds

    Pronunciation 2

    Definitions

    潑

    1. Only used in 潑潑／泼泼 (bōbō, “wiggling of fish's tail”).

    Japanese

    Shinjitai
    (extended)

    		溌

    Kyūjitai

    		潑

    Kanji

    潑

    (Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 溌)

    1. pour
    2. splash
    3. water
    4. sprinkle
    5. violent
    6. malignant

    Readings

    Usage notes

    In modern Japanese, 潑 is mostly replaced by 発, due to the deprecation of non-tōyō kanji caused by the Japanese script reform.

    Japanese terms with 潑 replaced by daiyōji 発
    活発

    Compounds

    Korean

    Hanja

    潑 (eumhun 물뿌릴 발 (mulppuril bal))

    1. sprinkle water
    2. fierce

    Vietnamese

    Han character

    潑: Hán Nôm readings: bát

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