播

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播 U+64AD, 播
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Translingual

Han character

播 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 手竹木田 (QHDW), four-corner 52069, composition ⿰扌番)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 456, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12747
  • Dae Jaweon: page 805, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1960, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+64AD

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (番) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
皤 *paːl, *baːl
嶓 *paːl
番 *paːl, *paːls, *pʰaːn, *pʰan, *ban
播 *paːls
譒 *paːls
鄱 *baːl
潘 *pʰaːn
蟠 *baːn, *ban
磻 *baːn
蕃 *pan, *ban
轓 *pan, *pʰan
鱕 *pan
鐇 *pan, *ban
藩 *pan, *ban
籓 *pan
橎 *panʔ
翻 *pʰan
幡 *pʰan
飜 *pʰan
旛 *pʰan, *ban
繙 *pʰan, *ban
燔 *ban
蹯 *ban
膰 *ban
羳 *ban
鷭 *ban
璠 *ban
襎 *ban
墦 *ban

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *paːls): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 番 (OC *paːl, *paːls, *pʰaːn, *pʰan, *ban).

Etymology 1

trad. 播
simp. # 播
2nd round simp. 抪

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bwar (“to throw away; to cast; to sow; to toss”); cognate with Tibetan འབོར ('bor, “to throw”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007, 2024; Sagart, 2018).

Pronunciation

Note: po - used in 廣播.
Note:
  • bó̤ - literary;
  • buó - vernacular.
Rime
Character 播
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 戈 (95)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 補過切
Baxter paH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/puɑH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/puɑH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/puɑH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pwaH/
Li
Rong 		/puɑH/
Wang
Li 		/puɑH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/puɑH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bò
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bo3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 播
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bò
Middle
Chinese 		‹ paH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*pˁar-s/
English to sow

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 播
Reading # 1/1
No. 2872
Phonetic
component 		番
Rime
group 		歌
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		播
Old
Chinese 		/*paːls/

Definitions

播

  1. to sow; to seed
  2. to broadcast; to spread
  3. (literary) to move about; to remove; to migrate; to go into exile
  4. † to scatter
Synonyms
  • (to sow):
  • (to spread):
  • (to move about):

Compounds

Etymology 2

trad. 播
simp. # 播

Pronunciation

Definitions

播

  1. † Alternative form of 簸 (“toss up and down”)

Japanese

Kanji

播

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. scatter, spread, disseminate

Readings

  • Go-on: は (ha)
  • Kan-on: は (ha)
  • Kan’yō-on: はん (han)、ばん (ban)
  • Kun: まく (maku, 播く)
  • Nanori: はり (hari)

Korean

Hanja

播 (eumhun 뿌릴 파 (ppuril pa))

  1. to spray, spread, scatter, sow

Synonyms

Derived terms

Vietnamese

Han character

播: Hán Nôm readings: vá, bá, bạ, phăng, vả, vớ, bợ

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