撫

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See also: 抚 and 拊
撫 U+64AB, 撫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-64AB
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 撬 →

Translingual

Han character

撫 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 手人廿火 (QOTF), four-corner 58031, composition ⿰扌無)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 456, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12743
  • Dae Jaweon: page 805, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1958, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+64AB

Chinese

trad. 撫
simp. 抚
alternative forms 𢻬
𢻲
拊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 撫
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (無) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
墲 *m̥ʰaː, *maː, *ma
橅 *maː
膴 *hmaː, *ma, *maʔ
幠 *hmaː
鄦 *hmaʔ
撫 *m̥ʰaʔ
無 *ma
瞴 *ma, *maʔ
蕪 *ma
璑 *ma
鷡 *ma
譕 *ma
憮 *ma, *maʔ
舞 *maʔ
廡 *maʔ
嫵 *maʔ
甒 *maʔ
潕 *maʔ
儛 *maʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *m̥ʰaʔ) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 無 (OC *ma).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • bú - vernacular - (俗);
  • hú - literary.
Note:
  • (Suzhounese) 2vu - literary;
  • (Suzhounese) 2bu - colloquial.
    Rime
    Character 撫
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 滂 (2)
    Final (韻) 虞 (24)
    Tone (調) Rising (X)
    Openness (開合) Closed
    Division (等) III
    Fanqie 芳武切
    Baxter phjuX
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/pʰɨoX/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/pʰioX/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/pʰioX/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/pʰuə̆X/
    Li
    Rong         		/pʰioX/
    Wang
    Li         		/pʰĭuX/
    Bernhard
    Karlgren         		/pʰi̯uX/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		fǔ
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		fu2
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 撫
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		fǔ
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ phjuX ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*(r)aʔ/
    English lay the hand on

    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 撫
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 13116
    Phonetic
    component         		無
    Rime
    group         		魚
    Rime
    subdivision         		0
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		撫
    Old
    Chinese         		/*m̥ʰaʔ/

    Definitions

    撫

    1. to stroke; to caress
    2. (alt. form 拊) to pat; to strike; to clap
    3. to play; to pluck (an instrument)
    4. to console; to comfort
    5. to hold; to possess; to control
    6. to nurture; to take care of
    7. (Suzhounese, by extension) to wash
      撫面／抚面 [Suzhounese]  ―  to wash one's face

    Synonyms

    • (to stroke): 摸 (mō)
    • (to wash):
    Dialectal synonyms of 洗 (“to wash”)
    Variety Location Words
    Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 洗
    Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 洗
    Taiwan 洗
    Singapore 洗
    Jilu Mandarin Jinan 洗
    Central Plains Mandarin Xi'an 洗
    Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 洗
    Wuhan 洗
    Guilin 洗
    Jianghuai Mandarin Yangzhou 洗
    Hefei 洗
    Cantonese Guangzhou 洗
    Hong Kong 洗
    Yangjiang 洗
    Singapore (Guangfu) 洗
    Gan Nanchang 洗
    Hakka Meixian 洗
    Miaoli (N. Sixian) 洗
    Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 洗
    Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 洗
    Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 洗
    Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 洗
    Jin Taiyuan 洗
    Northern Min Jian'ou 洗
    Eastern Min Fuzhou 洗
    Southern Min Xiamen 洗
    Singapore (Hokkien) 洗
    Chaozhou 洗
    Singapore (Teochew) 洗
    Singapore (Hainanese) 洗
    Wu Shanghai 汏
    Shanghai (Songjiang) 汏, 淨
    Shanghai (Shuangcaodun, Baoshan) 汏
    Shanghai (Luodian, Baoshan) 汏
    Suzhou 汏
    Suzhou (Lili, Wujiang) 汏
    Suzhou (Shengze, Wujiang) 汏
    Wuxi 汏
    Changshu 汏
    Kunshan 汏
    Jiaxing 汏
    Changzhou 洗, 揩, 汏
    Liyang 洗
    Changzhou (Jintan) 洗
    Yixing 汏
    Danyang 洗
    Danyang (Tongjiaqiao) 洗
    Jingjiang 洗
    Jiangyin 代, 汏 rare
    Huzhou (Shuanglin) 汏
    Hangzhou 汏, 洗
    Hangzhou (Yuhang) 汏
    Zhuji (Wangjiajing) 洗
    Shengzhou (Taiping) 洗
    Ningbo ⿰氵丈
    Yuyao 汏
    Taizhou (Huangyan) 洗, 汏
    Wenzhou 洗, 盪
    Quzhou 洗, 汏 rare
    Jinhua 洗, 汏
    Yongkang 洗
    Xiang Changsha 洗
    Shuangfeng 洗

    Compounds

    Japanese

    Kanji

    撫

    (Jinmeiyō kanji)

    1. stroke, pat

    Readings

    • Go-on: ふ (fu)
    • Kan-on: ふ (fu)
    • Kan’yō-on: ぶ (bu)
    • Kun: なでる (naderu, 撫でる)

    Korean

    Hanja

    撫 • (mu) (hangeul 무, revised mu, McCune–Reischauer mu, Yale mu)

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    Vietnamese

    Han character

    撫: Hán Nôm readings: vỗ, dỗ, phủ, vồ

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