胞

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See also: 脬
胞 U+80DE, 胞
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-80DE
← 胝
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 胟 →

Translingual

Han character

胞 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月心口山 (BPRU), four-corner 77212, composition ⿰月包)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 979, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29396
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1430, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2062, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+80DE

Chinese

trad. 胞
simp. # 胞
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Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 胞
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (勹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
袍 *buː
袌 *buː, *buːs
軳 *buː
抱 *buːʔ
勽 *buːs, *mɯnʔ
菢 *buːs
勹 *pruː
包 *pruː
胞 *pruː, *pʰruː
苞 *pruː
枹 *pruː, *bu, *bu
飽 *pruːʔ
泡 *pʰruː, *m̥ʰruːs, *bruː
炮 *pʰruːs, *bruː
皰 *pʰruːs, *bruːs
疱 *pʰruːs, *bruːs
跑 *bruː, *bruːɡ
咆 *bruː
庖 *bruː
匏 *bruː
刨 *bruː
狍 *bruː
炰 *bruː
鉋 *bruː, *bruːs
瓟 *bruː, *bruːɡ
颮 *bruː, *pʰruːɡ
鞄 *bruː, *bruːʔ, *bruːs, *pʰruːɡ
鮑 *bruːʔ
骲 *bruːʔ, *bruːs, *bruːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
玸 *bu
雹 *bruːɡ
窇 *bruːɡ

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/m-bu ~ pru (“nest; womb; placenta”). Cognate with Tibetan ཕྲུ་མ (phru ma, “womb”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 胞 胞
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 幫 (1) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 肴 (90) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) II II
Fanqie 布交切 匹交切
Baxter paew phaew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pˠau/ /pʰˠau/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pᵚau/ /pʰᵚau/
Shao
Rongfen 		/pau/ /pʰau/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/paɨw/ /pʰaɨw/
Li
Rong 		/pau/ /pʰau/
Wang
Li 		/pau/ /pʰau/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/pau/ /pʰau/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bāo pāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		baau1 paau1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 胞
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bāo
Middle
Chinese 		‹ pæw ›
Old
Chinese 		/*pˁ<r>u/
English womb

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 胞 胞
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 274 279
Phonetic
component 		勹 勹
Rime
group 		幽 幽
Rime
subdivision 		1 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		包 胞
Old
Chinese 		/*pruː/ /*pʰruː/

Definitions

胞

  1. afterbirth; placenta
  2. † womb
  3. born of the same parents
  4. (figuratively) born of the same ancestors; fellow countrypeople; compatriot
  5. Short for 細胞／细胞 (xìbāo, “cell”).

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 胞
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 匹交切
Baxter phaew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pʰˠau/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pʰᵚau/
Shao
Rongfen 		/pʰau/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pʰaɨw/
Li
Rong 		/pʰau/
Wang
Li 		/pʰau/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/pʰau/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		pāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		paau1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 胞
Reading # 2/2
No. 279
Phonetic
component 		勹
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		胞
Old
Chinese 		/*pʰruː/

Definitions

胞

  1. † Alternative form of 脬 (pāo, “bladder”)
  2. † Alternative form of 泡 (pāo, “Classifier for excreta.”)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Definitions

胞

  1. † Alternative form of 庖 (páo, “cook”)

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

Definitions

胞

  1. † Alternative form of 皰 / 疱 (pào, “blister; bleb”)

References

Japanese

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

胞

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. brethren
  2. bulla
  3. cells
  4. cysts
  5. vase(esp as one used to store alcohol)
  6. vesicle

Readings

  • Go-on: ひょう (hyō)←へう (feu, historical)
  • Kan-on: ほう (hō, Jōyō)←はう (fau, historical)
  • Kun: えな (ena)

Compounds

References

  1. ^ “胞”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 胞 (MC phaew).

Historical readings

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

胞 (eumhun 세포 포 (sepo po))

  1. hanja form? of 포 (“cell”)

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

胞: Hán Nôm readings: bào, nhau, rau

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