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包

包

包 U+5305, 包
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5305
← 匄
[U+5304] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 匆 →
[U+5306]

Translingual

Stroke order
Shinjitai 包
Simplified 包
Traditional 包

Alternative forms

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

Han character

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

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.
 包

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 包
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script 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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 包
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 布交切
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 包
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 包
Reading # 1/1
No. 273
Phonetic
component		 勹
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 包
Old
Chinese		 /*pruː/

Definitions

包

  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
    書包 / 书包  ―  shūbāo  ―  schoolbag; backpack
  10. bump; swelling
  11. yurt
  12. (food) baozi
    叉燒包 / 叉烧包  ―  chāshāobāo  ―  char siu bao
    小籠包 / 小笼包  ―  xiǎolóngbāo  ―  xiaolongbao
  13. (food) bun (any fluffy pastry)
    麵包 / 面包  ―  miànbāo  ―  bread
    漢堡包 / 汉堡包  ―  hànbǎobāo  ―  hamburger
  14. Classifier for packs or bags.
    一包薯片  ―  yī bāo shǔpiàn  ―  a bag of potato chips
  15. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

包

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Noun

包 ‎(katakana パオ, romaji pao)

  1. yurt

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

包 (bao)

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