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婦

婦

See also: 妇

Translingual

Han character

婦 (radical 38 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女尸一月 (VSMB), four-corner 47427, composition ⿰女帚)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 265, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6432
  • Dae Jaweon: page 532, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1062, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5A66

Chinese

trad. 婦
simp. 妇

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 婦
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (帚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
婦 *bɯʔ
帚 *pjuʔ
箒 *pjuʔ
鯞 *pjuʔ

Two possibilities:

  • Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *bɯʔ) : semantic 女 ‎(“woman”) + phonetic 帚 ‎(OC *pjuʔ), as supported by the latest Old Chinese reconstructions; or
  • Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 女 ‎(“woman”) + 帚 ‎(“broom”) – a woman with a broom.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 婦
Mandarin Beijing /fu⁵¹/
Harbin /fu⁴⁴/
Tianjin /fu⁵³/
Jinan /fu²¹/
Qingdao /fu²¹³/
Zhengzhou /fu²⁴/
Xi'an /fu⁴⁴/
Xining /fv̩²¹³/
Yinchuan /fu¹³/
Lanzhou /fu¹³/
Ürümqi /fu²¹³/
Wuhan /fu³⁵/
Chengdu /fu¹³/
Guiyang /fu²¹³/
Kunming /fu²¹²/
Nanjing /fu⁴⁴/
Hefei /fu⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /fu⁴⁵/
Pingyao /xu³⁵/
Hohhot /fu⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /vu²³/
Suzhou /vu³¹/
Hangzhou /vu¹³/
Wenzhou /vøy³⁵/
Hui Shexian /fu²²/
/fu³⁵/
Tunxi /fu²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /fu⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ɸu²¹/
Gan Nanchang /fu²¹/
Hakka Meixian /fu⁵³/
Taoyuan /fu⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /fu²³/
Nanning /fu²⁴/
/pʰu²⁴/
Hong Kong /fu¹³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hu²²/
/pu²²/ 新～
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hou²⁴²/
/pou²⁴²/ 新～
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xu⁴⁴/
/py⁴²/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hu³⁵/
/pu³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /fu³³/
/ʔbu³³/ 新～
Rime
Character 婦
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 房久切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /biuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /biəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /buwX/
Li
Rong		 /biuX/
Wang
Li		 /bĭəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fòu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 婦
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bjuwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mə.bəʔ/ (or *tsə.-? see Min)
English woman, wife

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 婦
Reading # 1/1
No. 17550
Phonetic
component		 帚
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 婦
Old
Chinese		 /*bɯʔ/

Definitions

婦

  1. married woman
  2. woman
  3. wife

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji

婦

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. lady

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

婦 • ‎(bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune-Reischauer pu)

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Derived terms

Vietnamese

Han character

婦 (phụ, vợ)

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