甫

Translingual

Han character

甫 (Kangxi radical 101, 用+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 戈十月 (IJB), four-corner 5322₇)

Derived characters

• 俌, 陠, 埔, 捕, 哺, 峬, 浦, 蒲, 悑, 輔(辅), 晡, 脯, 烳, 逋, 鋪(铺), 秿, 補, 蜅, 酺, 豧, 誧, 舖, 舗, 餔(𫗦), 鬴, 鯆(𫚙), 麱, 黼, 郙, 鵏
• 乶, 尃, 旉, 喸, 盙, 莆, 圃, 庯, 痡, 匍,牖

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 756, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21706
• Dae Jaweon: page 1166, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 20, character 1
• Unihan data for U+752B

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 甫
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

In oracle bone script, ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 屮 (“vegetation”) + 田 (“field”) – garden, original form of 圃.

In bronze inscriptions, the components 屮 and 田 corrupted into 父 and 用 respectively. 父 (OC *paʔ, *baʔ) became a sound component, making the character phono-semantic (形聲／形声, OC *paʔ) .

In the modern form the components have merged into a single shape.

Etymology 1

Probably cognate with 父 (OC *paʔ, “father”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Definitions

甫

1. (literary, honorific) A term of address for a man, usually as a suffix placed after a man's courtesy name.
2. (honorific) courtesy name of a man

   臺甫／台甫  ―  táifǔ  ―  your courtesy name (honorific)

3. a surname

Compounds

Descendants

• → Bouyei: bux
• → Proto-Southwestern Tai: *pʰuːꟲ (“person”)
  • Ahom: 𑜇𑜥 (phū)
  • Lao: ຜູ້ (phū)
  • Lü: ᦕᦴᧉ (ṗhuu²)
  • Shan: ၽူႈ (phūu)
  • Thai: ผู้ (pûu)
• → Zhuang: boux

Etymology 2

Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with 方 (OC *paŋ, “just now”) (Pulleybank, 1962). Also compare Tibeto-Burman words for “to begin”: Proto-Kuki-Chin *pran, Jingpho hpang, Phom baŋ⁵⁵, Bahing preŋ.

Pronunciation

Definitions

甫

1. ^† to begin
2. (literary) just; just now

Compounds

Etymology 3

Sino-Tibetan. Endoactive of a root *PA(ʔ) (Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with 佈 (OC *paːs, “to spread; to display; to announce”), 博 (OC *paːɡ, “wide”), 溥 (OC *pʰaːʔ, “vast; wide”), 敷 (OC *pʰa, “to lay out; to apply”), 鋪 (OC *pʰa, *pʰaː, “to spread”) (Schuessler, 2007). Also compare Proto-Kuki-Chin *phaʔ (“to spread; to stretch”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

甫

1. ^† great

   • 倬彼甫田，歲取十千。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     倬彼甫田，岁取十千。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Zhuō bǐ fǔ tián, suì qǔ shí qiān.

     Bright are those extensive fields,
     A tenth of whose produce is annually levied.

Compounds

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

Definitions

甫

1. ^† Alternative form of 圃 (pǔ)

Compounds

Etymology 5

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Definitions

甫

1. Used in place names.

Compounds

Etymology 6

Pronunciation

Definitions

甫

1. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 鋪／铺 (“ten Chinese miles”)

Etymology 7

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Definitions

甫

1. (Teochew) to fuck; to have sexual intercourse with

Synonyms

References

• “甫”, 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–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02630

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. for the first time; not until

Readings

• Go-on: ふ (fu)
• Kan-on: ふ (fu)
• Kan’yō-on: ほ (ho)
• Kun: はじめ (hajime, 甫め); すけ (suke)

Proper noun

甫(はじめ) • (Hajime) 

1. a male given name

Korean

Hanja

甫 • (bo) (hangeul 보, revised bo, McCune–Reischauer po, Yale po)

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Vietnamese

Han character

甫: Hán Nôm readings: phủ, bo, bô, bố

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Zhuang

Classifier

甫

1. Sawndip form of boux