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扶

扶

See also: 扷 and 抚

Translingual

Han character

扶 (radical 64 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手手人 (QQO), four-corner 55030, composition ⿰扌夫)

References

  • KangXi: page 419, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11840
  • Dae Jaweon: page 765, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1833, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6276

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 扶

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (夫) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
趺 *pa
肤 *pa
邞 *pa
鈇 *pa
衭 *pa
玞 *pa
夫 *pa, *ba
鳺 *pa
扶 *pa, *ba
妋 *pa, *qu
麩 *pʰa
蚨 *ba
芙 *ba
颫 *ba
枎 *ba

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pa, *ba) : semantic 扌 + phonetic 夫 ‎(OC *pa, *ba).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 扶 扶
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 並 (3) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 虞 (24) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 防無切 甫無切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bɨo/ /pɨo/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bio/ /pio/
Shao
Rongfen		 /bio/ /pio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /buə̆/ /puə̆/
Li
Rong		 /bio/ /pio/
Wang
Li		 /bĭu/ /pĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯u/ /pi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fú fū
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 扶 扶
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fú fú
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bju › ‹ bju ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m-[p](r)a/ /*m-[p](r)a/
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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 扶 扶
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 3276 3280
Phonetic
component		 夫 夫
Rime
group		 魚 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 跗 扶
Old
Chinese		 /*pa/ /*ba/

Definitions

扶

  1. to hold onto something as support; to support oneself
  2. to help someone up; to support someone
  3. to help; to aid; to assist
  4. to try to do something despite illness

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

扶

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

扶 (phù, hùa, phò, vùa)

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