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沸

沸

沸 U+6CB8, 沸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CB8
← 沷
[U+6CB7] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 油 →
[U+6CB9]

Translingual

Han character

沸 (radical 85 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水中中弓 (ELLN), four-corner 35127, composition ⿰氵弗)

  1. boil, bubble up, gush

References

  • KangXi: page 614, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17251
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1007, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1597, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6CB8

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 沸

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (弗) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鄪 *prɯds
費 *prɯds, *pʰɯds, *bɯds
砩 *pads
沸 *pɯds
疿 *pɯds
茀 *pɯds, *pʰɯd
髴 *pʰɯds, *pɯd, *pʰɯd
昲 *pʰɯds
靅 *pʰɯds
狒 *buds
怫 *bɯds, *bɯd
胇 *brɯd
艴 *bɯːd, *pʰɯd
弗 *pɯd
紼 *pɯd
柫 *pɯd
笰 *pɯd
拂 *pʰɯd
刜 *pʰɯd, *bɯd
彿 *pʰɯd
佛 *bɯd
坲 *bɯd
咈 *bɯd
炥 *bɯd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pɯds) : semantic 氵 ‎(“water”) + phonetic 弗 ‎(OC *pɯd). 弗 also has meaning of “straighten, correct”, hence connotation of “correct, purify water by boiling”.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 沸
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 微 (21)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 方味切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pʉiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pʷɨiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /piuəiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pujH/
Li
Rong		 /piuəiH/
Wang
Li		 /pĭwəiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pwe̯iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fèi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 沸
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fèi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pjɨjH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*Nə.p[u][t]-s/
English boil (v.)

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 沸
Reading # 1/1
No. 3301
Phonetic
component		 弗
Rime
group		 隊
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 沸
Old
Chinese		 /*pɯds/

Definitions

沸

  1. to boil

Compounds

  • 沸泉
  • 沸涫
  • 沸湯／沸汤
  • 沸然
  • 沸熱／沸热
  • 沸羹
  • 沸騰／沸腾 (fèiténg)
  • 沸點／沸点 (fèidiǎn)
  • 沸鼎
  • 海沸山搖／海沸山摇
  • 海沸山裂
  • 海沸江翻
  • 海沸河翻
  • 海沸波翻
  • 煮沸 (zhǔfèi)
  • 物論沸騰／物论沸腾
  • 物議沸騰／物议沸腾
  • 百沸湯／百沸汤
  • 笙歌鼎沸
  • 蜩沸
  • 蜩螗沸羹
  • 蟲鳴水沸／虫鸣水沸
  • 觱沸
  • 麋沸
  • 麋沸蟻動／麋沸蚁动
  • 麋沸蟻聚／麋沸蚁聚
  • 麻沸
  • 麻沸散
  • 鼎沸
  • 鼎沸不絕／鼎沸不绝

Japanese

Kanji

沸

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

沸 • ‎(bi, bul) (hangeul 비, 불, revised bi, bul, McCune-Reischauer pi, pul, Yale pi, pul)

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Vietnamese

Han character

沸 (phí, phất)

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