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See also:
U+84B2, 蒲
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-84B2

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 140, +10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿水戈月 (TEIB), four-corner 44127, composition )

  1. bulrush, cattail, reed
  2. vine
  3. various rivers and places

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1049, character 37
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31611
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1511, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3269, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+84B2

Chinese

trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *baː) : semantic (vegetation) + phonetic (OC *pʰaːʔ).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (23)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter bu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/buo/
Pan
Wuyun
/buo/
Shao
Rongfen
/bo/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bɔ/
Li
Rong
/bo/
Wang
Li
/bu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱuo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
pou4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ bu ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁa/
English part of personal name

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 3441
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*baː/

Definitions

  1. calamus; cattail
  2. Short for 菖蒲 (chāngpú, “Acorus calamus”).
  3. Short for 香蒲 (“Typha orientalis”).
  4. Short for 蒲葵 (púkuí, “Livistona chinensis”).
  5. Used in 蒲桃 (pútáo).
  6. a surname
      ―  Sōnglíng  ―  Pu Songling (author of Liaozhai zhiyi)

Compounds

Descendants

(water plant):

  • Tangut: 𘀔 (*phu¹)

Etymology 2

From the vernacular reading of (pou4).

Pronunciation

Definitions

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to appear
    [Hong Kong Cantonese]  ―  pou4 tau4   ―  (of a person) to show up
  2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to party; to leisure
    Synonym: wet

References

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. bulrush, reed

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: bồ
: Hán Nôm readings: bồ, , mồ

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