泊

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See also: 濼
泊 U+6CCA, 泊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CCA
← 泉
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 泋 →

Translingual

Han character

Stroke order
8 strokes

泊 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水竹日 (EHA), four-corner 36100, composition ⿰氵白)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 615, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17275
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1009, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1588, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6CCA

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 泊
alternative forms 濼／泺 “lake”

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (白) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
怕 *pʰraːɡs, *pʰraːɡ
帕 *pʰraːɡs, *mbraːd
粕 *pʰaːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
胉 *pʰaːɡ
泊 *baːɡ
箔 *baːɡ
魄 *tʰaːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
皕 *prɯɡ
伯 *praːɡ
百 *praːɡ
迫 *praːɡ
敀 *praːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
柏 *praːɡ
湐 *praːɡ
拍 *pʰraːɡ
珀 *pʰraːɡ
皛 *pʰraːɡ, *ɡeːwʔ
洦 *mpʰraːɡ, *mbraːɡ
白 *braːɡ
帛 *braːɡ
舶 *braːɡ
鮊 *braːɡ
陌 *mbraːɡ
帞 *mbraːɡ
袹 *mbraːɡ
蛨 *mbraːɡ
貊 *mbraːɡ
佰 *mbraːɡ
銆 *mbraːɡ
碧 *praɡ, *preɡ
咟 *ɦmreːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *baːɡ) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 白 (OC *braːɡ) – a ship stays still after running aground in shallow water.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation 1

Note: pok3 — colloquial, sometimes proscribed variant in 漂泊 (piu1 pok3), 落泊 (lok6 pok3) etc.
Note:
  • po̍k - literary;
  • po̍h - vernacular.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 泊
Mandarin Beijing /pʰo⁵¹/
/pʰo⁵⁵/
Harbin /pɤ²¹³/
Tianjin /pʰo⁵³/
/po⁴⁵/
Jinan /pə²¹³/
Qingdao /pʰə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /pʰo²⁴/
Xi'an /pei²¹/
Xining /pɔ²⁴/
Yinchuan /puə¹³/
Lanzhou /pə⁵³/
Ürümqi /pei⁵¹/
Wuhan /pɤ²¹³/
Chengdu /pʰe³¹/
/po³¹/
Guiyang /pɛ²¹/
Kunming /pə³¹/
Nanjing /pʰəʔ⁵/
Hefei /pʰɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /pʰaʔ²/
Pingyao /piʌʔ¹³/
/pʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /paʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /pʰaʔ⁵/
Suzhou /pʰəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /pʰoʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /bo²¹³/
Hui Shexian /pʰɔ³²⁴/
Tunxi /pʰa⁵/
Xiang Changsha /pʰə²⁴/
Xiangtan /pʰæ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /pʰok̚¹/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /pʰak̚³/
Nanning /pɔk̚²²/
Hong Kong /pɔk̚²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /pɔk̚⁵/
/poʔ⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /poʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /pɔ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /poʔ⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ʔbɔk̚⁵/
Rime
Character 泊
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 鐸 (104)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 傍各切
Baxter bak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/bwɑk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/bʷɑk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/buɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/bwak̚/
Li
Rong 		/buɑk̚/
Wang
Li 		/buɑk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/bʱwɑk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bó
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bok6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 泊
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bó
Middle
Chinese 		‹ bak ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁak/
English calm, still

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 泊
Reading # 1/1
No. 189
Phonetic
component 		白
Rime
group 		鐸
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		泊
Old
Chinese 		/*baːɡ/
Definitions

泊

  1. to anchor (a vessel); to moor
  2. to stay for a while; to find refuge
  3. modest; tranquil
  4. Alternative form of 薄
Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Note:
  • pok3 — variant, recommended spelling is 濼／泺;
  • baak3 — rare.
Note:
  • po̍k - literary;
  • po̍h - vernacular.
Definitions

泊

  1. lake (large, landlocked stretch of water)
Synonyms
  • 海子 (hǎizi) (northern and southwestern Mandarin, chiefly in toponyms)
  • 湖 (hú)
  • 湖泊 (húpō)
Compounds

Etymology 2

Phono-semantic matching of English park.

Pronunciation

Note: pā — colloquial variant in 泊車／泊车 (bóchē).

Definitions

泊

  1. (chiefly Cantonese) to park
    一個位都冇得泊 [Cantonese, trad.]
    一个位都冇得泊 [Cantonese, simp.]
    jat1 go3 wai6-2 dou1 mou5 dak1 paak3
    not a single parking spot available

Compounds

Etymology 3

Borrowing from English poise.

Pronunciation

Definitions

泊

  1. poise (unit of viscosity)

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

Definitions

泊

  1. Used in 漠泊.
  2. Alternative form of 洦 (pò)

References

Japanese

Kanji

泊

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Derived terms

Counter

泊(はく) • (-haku) 

  1. nights stayed, nights

Proper noun

泊(とまり) • (Tomari) 

  1. a surname

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 泊 (MC bak).

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

泊 (eumhun 머무를 박 (meomureul bak))

  1. Hanja form? of 박 (“stay; visit”).

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

泊: Hán Nôm readings: bạc

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