普

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See also: 晋
普 U+666E, 普
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-666E
← 晭
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 景 →

Translingual

Stroke order
13 strokes

Han character

普 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿金日 (TCA), four-corner 80601, composition ⿱並日)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 496, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13982
  • Dae Jaweon: page 862, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1521, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+666E

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 普
alternative forms 暜

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 普
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (普) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
譜 *paːʔ
普 *pʰaːʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 並 + 日 (“sun”).

Etymology

“wide; universal”
Related to 溥 (OC *pʰaːʔ).
“man”
Borrowed from Tibetan པོ (po).

Pronunciation

Note: phú/puˊ - in 普普仔.
Rime
Character 普
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 滂古切
Baxter phuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pʰuoX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pʰuoX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/pʰoX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pʰɔX/
Li
Rong 		/pʰoX/
Wang
Li 		/pʰuX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/pʰuoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		pǔ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		pou2
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 普
Reading # 1/1
No. 9905
Phonetic
component 		普
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		普
Old
Chinese 		/*pʰaːʔ/

Definitions

普

  1. (obsolete, of sun) lustreless
  2. universal; general; widespread
  3. wide; vast
  4. (obsolete, Tibet) adult man
  5. Short for 普通話／普通话 (pǔtōnghuà, “Putonghua”).
    推普  ―  tuīpǔ  ―  to promote Putonghua
    普教中  ―  pǔjiàozhōng  ―  using Putonghua as the medium of instruction for teaching the Chinese Language Subject
  6. Used in transcription.
    普吉  ―  Pǔjí  ―  Phukhet
    聖多美和普林西比 [MSC, trad.]
    圣多美和普林西比 [MSC, simp.]
    Shèngduōměi hé Pǔlínxībǐ
    São Tomé and Principe
    當勞·特朗普／当劳·特朗普  ―  Dāngláo Tèlǎngpǔ  ―  Donald Trump
    1. Short for 普魯士／普鲁士 (Pǔlǔshì, “Prussia”).
      普奧戰爭／普奥战争  ―  Pǔ-Ào Zhànzhēng  ―  Austro-Prussian War
    2. Short for 普洱茶 (pǔ'ěrchá, “pu'er tea”).
      菊普  ―  júpǔ  ―  chrysanthemum and pu'er tea
      熟普  ―  shúpǔ  ―  fermented pu'er
  7. a surname

Compounds

References

  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “普”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 179.

Japanese

Kanji

普

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. general; universal

Readings

  • Go-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: ほ (ho)
  • Kun: あまねし (amaneshi, 普し)、あまねく (amaneku, 普く)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

普 (eumhun 넓을 보 (neolbeul bo))

  1. hanja form? of 보 (“universal, general, widespread”)

Vietnamese

Han character

普: Hán Nôm readings: phổ, phơ

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