跋

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跋 U+8DCB, 跋
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8DCB
← 跊
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 跌 →
跋 U+2F9DA, 跋
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F9DA
← 𠠄
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 趼 →

Translingual

Traditional 跋
Simplified 跋
Japanese 跋
Korean 跋

Han character

跋 (Kangxi radical 157, 足+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口一戈大水 (RMIKE) or 口一戈大大 (RMIKK), four-corner 63144, composition ⿰𧾷犮)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1223, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37446
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1694, character 30
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3694, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+8DCB

Chinese

trad. 跋
simp. # 跋

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (犮) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
軷 *boːds, *boːd
韍 *bruds, *pud
祓 *pods, *pʰud
蛂 *blɯːd
拔 *bruːd, *boːd, *bod
菝 *bruːd, *boːd
袚 *poːd
茇 *poːd
盋 *poːd
帗 *poːd, *pud
跋 *boːd
魃 *boːd
䣮 *boːd
馛 *boːd
炦 *boːd
颰 *boːd, *pod
妭 *boːd
犮 *boːd
胈 *boːd
鈸 *boːd
苃 *boːd
坺 *boːd, *bod
髮 *pod
冹 *pod, *pud
瞂 *bod
紱 *pud
黻 *pud
翇 *pud

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *boːd) : semantic 足 (“foot”) + phonetic 犮 (OC *boːd).

Etymology 1

Cognate with 茇 (OC *poːd, “roots of grass”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • buăk - vernacular (“to fall; to toss”);
  • băk - literary (“to trek; postscript”).
Note:
  • poa̍h - vernacular (“to fall; to toss; to gamble; to use; to go down; to turn around”);
  • poa̍t - literary.
Note:
  • buah8 - vernacular (“to fall; to toss; to gamble”);
  • buag8/buêg8 - literary (“to trek; postscript”).
Rime
Character 跋
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 末 (64)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 蒲撥切
Baxter bat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/buɑt̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/bʷɑt̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/buɑt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/bwat̚/
Li
Rong 		/buɑt̚/
Wang
Li 		/buɑt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/bʱuɑt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bó
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		but6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 跋
Reading # 1/1
No. 136
Phonetic
component 		犮
Rime
group 		月
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		跋
Old
Chinese 		/*boːd/

Definitions

跋

  1. † (Min) to tumble; to fall down
    跋著／跋着 [Teochew]  ―  buah8 dioh8 [Peng'im]  ―  to fall down
    跋倒，自家爬起。 [Eastern Min, trad. and simp.]
    Buăk dō̤, cê-gă bà kī>ī. / [Bàng-uâ-cê / IPA]
    If you fall, stand up yourself.
  2. (Min) to toss; to throw (dice, moon blocks, etc.)
  3. (Southern Min) to gamble
  4. (Hokkien) to use (a scheme, trick, etc.)
  5. † to trample; to step; to step on
  6. to trek; to walk; to go by foot; to travel on land
  7. (Hakka) to get up
  8. (Hakka) to climb
  9. (Mainland China Hokkien) to go down; to drop (price, etc.)
  10. † (Zhangzhou Hokkien, Wu) to turn around
  11. † base of a candle
  12. postscript; epilogue; colophon
    Antonym: 序 (xù)
  13. a surname

Compounds

See also

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 跋 – see 䟺.
(This character is a variant form of 䟺).

References

  • Duffus, William (1883) “fall”, in English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Swatow, Swatow: English Presbyterian Mission Press, page 102

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended) 		Shinjitai
(extended)
跋󠄂
跋+󠄂?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
Kyūjitai 跋
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Kanji

跋

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

跋 (eum 발 (bal))

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Vietnamese

Han character

跋: Hán Nôm readings: bạt

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References

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