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怖

怖

Translingual

Han character

怖 (radical 61 心+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 心大中月 (PKLB), four-corner 94027, composition ⿰忄布)

  1. terror, fear
  2. frighten
  3. terrified

References

  • KangXi: page 380, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10450
  • Dae Jaweon: page 708, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2284, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6016

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 怖

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (父) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
抪 *paː, *paːs
布 *paːs
佈 *paːs
怖 *pʰaːs
斧 *paʔ
父 *paʔ, *baʔ
蚥 *paʔ, *baʔ
滏 *baʔ
釜 *baʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 怖 怖
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 滂 (2) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 模 (23) 月 (68)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 普故切 拂伐切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pʰuoH/ /pʰʉɐt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pʰuoH/ /pʰʷiɐt̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pʰoH/ /pʰiuɐt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pʰɔH/ /pʰuat̚/
Li
Rong		 /pʰoH/ /pʰiuɐt̚/
Wang
Li		 /pʰuH/ /pʰĭwɐt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pʰuoH/ /pʰi̯wɐt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 pù fa
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 怖
Reading # 1/1
No. 3498
Phonetic
component		 父
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 怖
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰaːs/

Definitions

怖

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Japanese

Kanji

怖

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. dreadful

Readings

Korean

Hanja

怖 • ‎(po) (hangeul 포, revised po, McCune-Reischauer p'o, Yale pho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

怖 (bố)

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