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U+5305, 包
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5305

[U+5304]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5306]

Translingual

Stroke order
Shinjitai
Simplified
Traditional

Alternative forms

Note different Japanese and Chinese forms (center open in Japanese, a closed loop in Chinese). Note also that the bottom tail extends beyond the right side (in either form).

Han character

(radical 20 +3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 心口山 (PRU), four-corner 27712, composition)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 150, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2506
  • Dae Jaweon: page 340, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 257, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5305

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*buː
*buː, *buːs
*buː
*buːʔ
*buːs, *mɯnʔ
*buːs
*pruː
*pruː
*pruː, *pʰruː
*pruː
*pruː, *bu, *bu
*pruːʔ
*pʰruː, *m̥ʰruːs, *bruː
*pʰruːs, *bruː
*pʰruːs, *bruːs
*pʰruːs, *bruːs
*bruː, *bruːɡ
*bruː
*bruː
*bruː
*bruː
*bruː
*bruː
*bruː, *bruːs
*bruː, *bruːɡ
*bruː, *pʰruːɡ
*bruː, *bruːʔ, *bruːs, *pʰruːɡ
*bruːʔ
*bruːʔ, *bruːs, *bruːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
*bu
*bruːɡ
*bruːɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (90)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pˠau/
Pan
Wuyun
/pᵚau/
Shao
Rongfen
/pau/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/paɨw/
Li
Rong
/pau/
Wang
Li
/pau/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pau/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
bāo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
bāo
Middle
Chinese
‹ pæw ›
Old
Chinese
/*pˤ<r>u/
English wrap, bundle

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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
Reading # 1/1
No. 273
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pruː/

Definitions

  1. to wrap up; to enwrap; to bundle up
  2. to include; to encompass
  3. to cover; to place under cover
  4. to assure; to ensure; to guarantee
  5. to charter
  6. to surround
  7. bundle; bunch
  8. parcel; package
  9. bag; sack
    /    shūbāo   schoolbag; backpack
  10. bump; swelling
  11. yurt
  12. (food) baozi
    叉燒 / 叉烧   chāshāobāo   char siu bao
    小籠 / 小笼   xiǎolóngbāo   xiaolongbao
  13. (food) bun (any fluffy pastry)
    /    miànbāo   bread
    漢堡 / 汉堡   hànbǎobāo   hamburger
  14. Classifier for packs or bags.
    薯片   bāo shǔpiàn   a bag of potato chips
  15. A surname.

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Noun

(katakana パオ, romaji pao)

  1. yurt

Korean

Hanja

(po) (hangeul , revised po, McCune-Reischauer p'o)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(bao)

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