佈

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See also: 布
佈 U+4F48, 佈
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F48
← 佇
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 佉 →

Translingual

Han character

佈 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人大中月 (OKLB), four-corner 24227, composition ⿰亻布)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 98, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 497
  • Dae Jaweon: page 206, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 131, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+4F48

Chinese

trad. 佈/布
simp. 布

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 佈
Transcribed ancient scripts
L35990
L35991
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (父) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
抪 *paː, *paːs
布 *paːs
佈 *paːs
怖 *pʰaːs
斧 *paʔ
父 *paʔ, *baʔ
蚥 *paʔ, *baʔ
滏 *baʔ
釜 *baʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *paːs) : semantic 亻 + phonetic 布 (OC *paːs).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 佈
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 愽故切
Baxter puH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/puoH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/puoH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/poH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pɔH/
Li
Rong 		/poH/
Wang
Li 		/puH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/puoH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bou3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 佈
Reading # 1/1
No. 3496
Phonetic
component 		父
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese 		/*paːs/

Definitions

佈

  1. to announce; to proclaim
    宣佈／宣布  ―  xuānbù  ―  to declare, to proclaim, to announce
  2. to spread
    遍佈／遍布  ―  biànbù  ―  to be found everywhere, to be spread all over
  3. to arrange
    佈兵／布兵  ―  bùbīng  ―  to deploy troops

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

佈

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): ほ (ho)、ふ (fu)
  • Kun: あまねし (amaneshi)

Korean

Hanja

佈 (eum 포 (po))

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Vietnamese

Han character

佈: Hán Việt readings: bố (博(bác)故(cố)切(thiết))[1][2]
佈: Nôm readings: bố[1], bô[2]

  1. father, daddy, dad

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nguyễn et al. (2009).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Trần (2004).

Zhuang

Noun

佈

  1. Sawndip form of boh

Classifier

佈

  1. Sawndip form of boux
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