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Translingual

Han character

(radical 72 +11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 日廿金水 (ATCE), four-corner 60132, composition)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 499, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14137
  • Dae Jaweon: page 868, character 35
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1532, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+66B4

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (3) (3)
Final () (89) (3)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bɑuH/ /buk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/bɑuH/ /buk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/bɑuH/ /buk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bawH/ /bəwk̚/
Li
Rong
/bɑuH/ /buk̚/
Wang
Li
/bɑuH/ /buk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱɑuH/ /bʱuk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
bào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
bào
Middle
Chinese
‹ bawH › ‹ buwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*[b]ˤawk-s/ /*m-pˤawk/
English violent expose to sun

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 330 343
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*boːwɢs/ /*boːɡ/

Definitions

  1. sudden
  2. violent, cruel, brutal, tyrannical
  3. to show, expose
  4. to injure

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. violent, brutal, fierce

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
ぼう
Grade: 5
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (bawH, violent).

Pronunciation

Adjectival noun

(-na inflection, hiragana ぼう, romaji )

  1. violent

Inflection

Noun

(hiragana ぼう, romaji )

  1. violentness

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

(po, pok, bak) (hangeul , , , McCune-Reischauer p'o, p'ok, pak, Yale pho, phok, pak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(bạo, bão, bộc, bẹo)

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