布

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See also: 佈
布 U+5E03, 布
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E03
← 市
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 帄 →

Translingual

Stroke order
Japan

(For Chinese,
swap
strokes 2 and 1.)

Han character

布 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 大中月 (KLB), four-corner 40227, composition ⿸𠂇巾)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 328, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8778
  • Dae Jaweon: page 633, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 728, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5E03

Chinese

trad. 布/佈
simp. 布
佈 – “to spread; to proclaim; to arrange; etc.”

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 布
Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
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) : phonetic 父 (OC *paʔ, *baʔ) + semantic 巾.

Etymology

"to spread out" (tr.)
Likely from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Schuessler (2007) considers this sense to be cognate with:
"cloth"
"Cloth" is often thought to be the same etymon as "to spread (out)" (tr.). Alternatively, Schuessler thinks this sense's Austroasiatic origin more likely. Indeed, a late Han (漢) dynasty's word for "cotton", 幏布 *ka(H)-puoH (Shuowen, Hou Hanshu), was borrowed from the Austroasiatic-speaking Man-Yi peoples, and a Sanskrit loan (c. 430 CE) into Northwestern dialect is 古貝 *koX-peiH. Compare Proto-Austroasiatic *k-rn-pas and Proto-Mon-Khmer *kpaas (“cotton”), whence Khmer ក្របាស (krɑbaah), Bahnar kơpaih, Proto-Vietic *k-paːs (→ Vietnamese vải & Muong pái).
Additionally, Schuessler suggests that the Austroasiatic word was the source of Sanskrit कर्पास (karpāsa) & Ancient Greek κάρπασος (kárpasos). Still, earlier Johnson & Decker (1980) stated that "the problem of etymological origin of karpāsa has not been resolved".

Pronunciation

Note:
  • bou3 - vernacular;
  • bu3 - literary.
    • (Leizhou)
      • Leizhou Pinyin: beu3 / bu3
      • Sinological IPA: /pɛu²¹/, /pu²¹/
Note:
  • beu3 - vernacular;
  • bu3 - literary.
Rime
Character 布
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
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 布
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ puH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*pˁa-s/
English cloth

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 布
Reading # 1/1
No. 3495
Phonetic
component 		父
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese 		/*paːs/

Definitions

布

  1. cloth; textiles (Classifier: 匹; 塊／块)
    棉布  ―  miánbù  ―  cotton cloth
  2. to announce; to proclaim
    宣布  ―  xuānbù  ―  to declare, to proclaim, to announce
  3. to spread
    遍布  ―  biànbù  ―  to be found everywhere, to be spread all over
    烏雲密布／乌云密布  ―  wūyúnmìbù  ―  overcast
    老人臉上布滿了皺紋。 [MSC, trad.]
    老人脸上布满了皱纹。 [MSC, simp.]
    Lǎorén liǎn shàng bùmǎn le zhòuwén.
    The old man's face is full of wrinkles.
  4. to deploy; to set out
    布署  ―  bùshǔ  ―  to lay out; to deploy
    布下圈套  ―  bù xià quāntào  ―  to set up a trap

Descendants

  • → Lao: ຜ້າ (phā, “cloth”)
  • → Thai: ผ้า (pâa, “cloth”)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

布

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: ほ (ho)
  • Kun: ぬの (nuno, 布, Jōyō)、しく (shiku, 布く)
  • Nanori: たえ (tae)、のぶ (nobu)、よし (yoshi)

Compounds

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
布
ぬの
Grade: 5
kun'yomi

⟨nuno1⟩ → */nunʷo/ → /nuno/

From Old Japanese,[1] from Proto-Japonic *nono.

Pronunciation

Noun

布(ぬの) • (nuno) 

  1. cloth
  2. (architecture) umbrella term for something wide, horizontal, level, parallel, etc. as in a piece of cloth
Derived terms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
布
ふ
Grade: 5
goon

From Middle Chinese 布 (MC puH).

“Hawaii”

Short form of ateji (当て字) spelling 布哇.

Pronunciation

Noun

布(ふ) • (fu) 

  1. cloth
  2. Short for 布銭 (fusen): a type of bronze coin used during the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China

Affix

布(ふ) • (fu) 

  1. cloth
  2. spread out evenly
  3. spread widely
  4. type of ancient Chinese currency
  5. (US) Short for ハワイ (“Hawaii (a state and former kingdom in the United States)”).

Derived terms

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Frellesvig, Bjarke, Stephen Wright Horn, et al. (eds.) (2023) “Old Japanese nunwo, ninwo”, in Oxford-NINJAL Corpus of Old Japanese‎
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  4. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1974), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Second edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō

Korean

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

布 • (po) (hangeul 포)

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Old Japanese

Etymology 1

From Proto-Japonic *nono.

Noun

布 (nuno1) (kana ぬの)

  1. cloth
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Japanese: 布 (nuno)

Etymology 2

The eastern variant, attested from an Azuma-uta poem in the Man’yōshū. Presumably from pre-form *neno.

Noun

布 (nino1) (kana にの)

  1. (regional, Central Eastern Old Japanese) cloth
    • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 14, poem 3351:
      , text here
      筑波禰爾由伎可母布良留伊奈乎可母加奈思吉児呂我爾努保佐流可母
      Tukupa-ne ni yuki1 ka mo puraru ina wo ka mo kanasiki1 ko1ro2 ga nino1 posaru ka mo
      (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Vietnamese

Han character

布: Hán Việt readings: bố (博(bác)故(cố)切(thiết))[1][2][3]
布: Nôm readings: bố[1][2], vú[1][3], bó[1], bồ[1], vó[1], múa[2], búa[3], vố[3], bô[4]

  1. Nôm form of vú (“breast”).

Compounds

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Nguyễn (2014).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Nguyễn et al. (2009).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Trần (2004).
  4. ^ Hồ (1976).
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