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U+7238, 爸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7238

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Stroke order
8 strokes

Han character

(Kangxi radical 88, +4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 金大日山 (CKAU), four-corner 80717, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 690, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19723
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1103, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2039, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7238

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alternative forms () Eastern Min

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *praːs, *baʔ) : semantic (father) + phonetic (OC *praː).

Etymology

Colloquial form of (OC *baʔ, “father”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *p/ba (male; father). The pronunciation of 爸, unlike 父, still retains the bilabial onset.

Pronunciation


Note:
  • Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taiwan:
    • pē/pēe - vernacular (also written as );
    • pâ/pa - vernacular;
    • pā - literary.
  • Quanzhou:
    • pě - vernacular (also written as );
    • pâ, pā - vernacular;
    • pǎ - literary.
Note:
  • bê6 - vernacular (also written as );
  • ba1/ba5 - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (95)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter baX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/buɑX/
Pan
Wuyun
/buɑX/
Shao
Rongfen
/buɑX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bwaX/
Li
Rong
/buɑX/
Wang
Li
/buɑX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/bʱuɑX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
bo6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 106 125
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*praːs/ /*baʔ/

Definitions

  1. (colloquial) father; dad
    剛!刚!  ―  shì Lǐ Gāng!  ―  My father is Li Gang!

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: (ba)
  • Kan-on: (ha)

Korean

Hanja

(pa) (hangeul , revised pa, McCune–Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)

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Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: bả, ba[1]
: Nôm readings: ba[1]

  1. chữ Hán form of ba (father).

References