埠

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See also: 埔
埠 U+57E0, 埠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-57E0
← 域
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 埡 →

Translingual

Han character

埠 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土竹口十 (GHRJ), four-corner 47147, composition ⿰土阜)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 230, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5161
  • Dae Jaweon: page 466, character 30
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 454, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+57E0

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 埠
alternative forms ⿱垖十
埗 (bou6) Cantonese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (阜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
阜 *buʔ
埠 *baːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *baːs) : semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 阜 (OC *buʔ).

Etymology

A late formation (後起字). Earlier forms of southern Chinese toponyms using the character were often written with the homophone 步 (MC buH) in historical records dated from the Northern Wei to Ming dynasties, which has been conjectured to be a transcription of an earlier Kra-Dai word (Kang, 2010). Cf. 墟 (xū, “market”).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • fau6 - literary;
  • bou6 - vernacular.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 埠
Reading # 1/1
No. 3534
Phonetic
component 		阜
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		捕
Old
Chinese 		/*baːs/
Notes 人步今分別唐字

Definitions

埠

  1. pier; wharf; dock
  2. port city
  3. commercial or trading port
  4. city; town
    外埠  ―  wàibù  ―  other cities
    埠仔 [Cantonese]  ―  fau6 zai2   ―  small city; small town

Usage notes

Synonyms

  • (pier):

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

埠

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: ぶ (bu)
  • Kan-on: ほ (ho)
  • Kan’yō-on: ふ (fu)
  • Kun: つか (tsuka, 埠)、はとば (hatoba, 埠)

Korean

Hanja

埠 • (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune–Reischauer pu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

埠: Hán Nôm readings: phụ

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References

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