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Translingual

Han character

(radical 69 +4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 金大竹一中 (CKHML), four-corner 80221, composition)

  1. axe, hatchet
  2. chop, hew

References

  • KangXi: page 479, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13539
  • Dae Jaweon: page 838, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2023, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+65A7

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*paː, *paːs
*paːs
*paːs
*pʰaːs
*paʔ
*paʔ, *baʔ
*paʔ, *baʔ
*baʔ
*baʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (24)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pɨoX/
Pan
Wuyun
/pioX/
Shao
Rongfen
/pioX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/puə̆X/
Li
Rong
/pioX/
Wang
Li
/pĭuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pi̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjuX ›
Old
Chinese
/*p(r)aʔ/
English axe

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. 3499
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*paʔ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 斧斤
  • 斧正 (fǔzhèng)
  • 斧鑿斧凿

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Originally pronounced wono.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ono/

Noun

(hiragana おの, romaji ono, historical hiragana をの)

  1. a tool used to cut down trees; an axe
    • 1079, Konkōmyō Saishōōkyō Ongi (page 9 (back))
      乎乃

References

  • Tsukishima, Hiroshi (1079) Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 12: Konkōmyō Saishōōkyō Ongi (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Kyūko Shoin, ISBN 978-4-7629-3099-7, published 1979.

Korean

Hanja

(bu) (hangeul , revised bu, McCune-Reischauer pu, Yale pwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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