敷

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敷 U+6577, 敷
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6577
← 敶
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 數 →

Translingual

Han character

敷 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 戈尸人大 (ISOK), four-corner 58240, composition ⿰旉攵)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 474, character 53
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13359
  • Dae Jaweon: page 829, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1473, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+6577

Chinese

trad. 敷
simp. # 敷
2nd round simp. 𪯈
alternative forms 旉
尃
𢾭
傅

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (旉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
敷 *pʰa
璷 *ɦb·ra

Variant form of 𢾭. Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰa) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : phonetic 尃 (OC *pʰa, “distribute”) + 攵 (“hand with whip; action”). The bottom left 寸 has been replaced with 方.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • pho͘ - vernacular;
  • hu - literary.
Rime
Character 敷
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 芳無切
Baxter phju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pʰɨo/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pʰio/
Shao
Rongfen 		/pʰio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pʰuə̆/
Li
Rong 		/pʰio/
Wang
Li 		/pʰĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/pʰi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		fū
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fu1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 敷
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		fū
Middle
Chinese 		‹ phju ›
Old
Chinese 		/*pʰ(r)a/
English spread widely

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 敷
Reading # 1/1
No. 3279
Phonetic
component 		旉
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		敷
Old
Chinese 		/*pʰa/

Definitions

敷

  1. to spread; to diffuse
  2. to apply; to paint
  3. (literary) to elaborate; to state
  4. to be sufficient
  5. (～母) (Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of 敷 (MC phju)

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai 敷
Kyūjitai
[1]
敷󠄁
敷+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
敷󠄃
敷+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

敷

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. spread
  2. pave
  3. sit
  4. promulgate

Readings

Compounds

Compounds

References

  1. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 1020 (paper), page 561 (digital)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

敷: Hán Nôm readings: phô, phu

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