苞

苞 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿心口山 (TPRU), four-corner 4471₂, composition ⿱艹包)

• 𢯿

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1023, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30789
• Dae Jaweon: page 1482, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3195, character 6
• Unihan data for U+82DE

Historical forms of the character 苞
Shang	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pruː) : semantic 艹 + phonetic 包 (OC *pruː).

苞

1. ^† bulrush (for making mats and straw sandals)
2. ^† root or stem of plants
3. ^† growing in profusion; luxuriant; profuse
4. (botany) bract; bud
5. ^† Alternative form of 包 (“to wrap up; to surround”)
6. a surname

• (bud): 蕾 (lěi)

苞

1. ^† Alternative form of 匏 (páo, “gourd”)

苞

1. ^† Alternative form of 藨 (“bulrush”)

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. husk
2. bract
3. straw wrapper
4. souvenir gift
5. bribe

• Go-on: ひょう (hyō)^{←へう (feu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ほう (hō)^{←はう (fau, historical)}
• Kun: つと (tsuto, 苞)
• Nanori: しげる (shigeru)

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

苞

Wikipedia ^ja

• (Tokyo) ほー (Atamadaka – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

苞(ほう) • (hō) ^{←はう (fau)?}

1. (botany) bract

• 苞葉(ほうよう) (hōyō)

• 総苞(そうほう) (sōhō, “involucre”)

苞 • (po) (hangeul 포, revised po, McCune–Reischauer p'o, Yale pho)

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pruː) : semantic 艹 (thảo, “grass (radical form)”) + phonetic 包 (bao).

苞: Hán Việt readings: bao^[1][2][3]
苞: Nôm readings: bèo^[4][5], bào^[6], vầu

1. Nôm form of bèo (“duckweed”).