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U+54FA, 哺
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54FA

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 30, +7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 口戈十月 (RIJB), four-corner 63027, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 191, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3676
  • Dae Jaweon: page 410, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 626, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+54FA

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alternative forms 𫗦

Glyph origin

Pronunciation


Note:
  • bu6 - literary;
  • bou7 - vernacular ("to chew").

    Rime
    Character
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial () (3)
    Final () (23)
    Tone (調) Departing (H)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division () I
    Fanqie
    Baxter buH
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang
    /buoH/
    Pan
    Wuyun
    /buoH/
    Shao
    Rongfen
    /boH/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank
    /bɔH/
    Li
    Rong
    /boH/
    Wang
    Li
    /buH/
    Bernard
    Karlgren
    /bʱuoH/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex
    bou6
    BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)
    Middle
    Chinese
    ‹ buH ›
    Old
    Chinese
    /*ˁa-s/
    English food held in the mouth

    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. 3444
    Phonetic
    component
    Rime
    group
    Rime
    subdivision
    0
    Corresponding
    MC rime
    Old
    Chinese
    /*baːs/

    Definitions

    1. (literary, of birds) to feed (with food in the mouth)
    2. to feed; to nurse
    3. (literary) food being chewed in the mouth
    4. (literary) to eat
    5. (Northern Min, Southern Min) to chew

    Synonyms

    Compounds

    Japanese

    Kanji

    (Jōyō kanji)

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    Readings

    • Go-on: (bu)
    • Kan-on: (ho, Jōyō)
    • Kun: ふくむ (fukumu, 哺む)はぐくむ (hagukumu, 哺む)

    Korean

    Hanja

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

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    Vietnamese

    Han character

    : Hán Nôm readings: bộ, phô, , bu, , bụ, pho, phò

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