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法
法
Translingual
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Han character
法 (radical 85 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水土戈 (EGI), four-corner 34131, composition ⿰氵去)
References
- KangXi: page 616, character 11
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17290
- Dae Jaweon: page 1010, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1579, character 4
- Unihan data for U+6CD5
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
法 | |
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Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (法) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 法 | *pqab |
| 灋 | *pqab |
Simplified from earlier 灋, which was originally used to represent 廢 (OC *pads, “to cast aside; to abrogate”). 去 (OC *kʰaʔ, *kʰas) in this character is probably ideogrammatic, not phonetic.
Etymology
Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Tibetan བབས (babs, “shape, form, appearance”), དབྱིབས (dbyibs, “shape, form, figure”). Possibly cognate with 凡 (OC *bom, “all, general, every; pattern, general rule”); see there for more.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): faat3
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fap
- Min Dong (BUC): huák
- Min Nan
- Wu (Wiktionary): faq (T4)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄈㄚˇ
- Wade-Giles: fa3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: faa
- IPA (key): /fa̠²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄈㄚ
- Wade-Giles: fa1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fa
- IPA (key): /fa̠⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄈㄚˊ
- Wade-Giles: fa2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: far
- IPA (key): /fa̠³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: faat3
- Yale: faat
- Cantonese Pinyin: faat8
- IPA (key): /fɑːt̚³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fap
- Hakka Romanization System: fab`
- Hagfa Pinyim: fab5
- IPA: /fap̚²/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: huák
- IPA (key): /huɑʔ²⁴/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoat
- Tâi-lô: huat
- Phofsit Daibuun: hoad
- IPA (Xiamen): /huat̚³²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /huat̚⁵/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /huat̚³²/
- IPA (Taipei): /huat̚³²/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /huat̚³²/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: huab4
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: huap
- IPA (key): /huap̚²/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: faq (T4)
- IPA (key): /fᴀʔ⁵⁵/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 法 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing |
/fa²¹⁴/ /fa⁵¹/ |
| Harbin | /fa²¹³/ | |
| Tianjin |
/fɑ⁴⁵/ ～子 /fɑ¹³/ 方～,～國 |
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| Jinan | /fa²¹³/ | |
| Qingdao | /fa⁵⁵/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /fa²⁴/ | |
| Xi'an | /fa²¹/ | |
| Xining | /fa⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /fa¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /fa¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /fa⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /fa²¹³/ | |
| Chengdu | /fa³¹/ | |
| Guiyang | /fa²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /fa̠³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /fɑʔ⁵/ | |
| Hefei | /fɐʔ⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /faʔ²/ |
| Pingyao | /xuʌʔ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /faʔ⁴³/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /faʔ⁵/ |
| Suzhou | /faʔ⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou | /fɑʔ⁵/ | |
| Wenzhou | /ho²¹³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /faʔ²¹/ |
| Tunxi | /fuːə⁵/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /fa²⁴/ |
| Xiangtan | /ɸɒ²⁴/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /faʔ⁵/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /fap̚¹/ |
| Taoyuan | /fɑp̚²²/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /fat̚³/ |
| Nanning | /fat̚³³/ | |
| Hong Kong | /fat̚³/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /huat̚³²/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /huɑʔ²³/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /xua²⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /huak̚²/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /fak̚⁵/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 法 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 乏 (148) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 方乏切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/pɨɐp̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/piɐp̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/piɐp̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/puap̚/ |
| Li Rong |
/piɐp̚/ |
| Wang Li |
/pĭwɐp̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/pi̯wɐp̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
fa |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 法 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
fǎ |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ pjop › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[p.k]ap/ |
| English | model, law |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 法 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 2867 |
| Phonetic component |
法 |
| Rime group |
盍 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
法 |
| Old Chinese |
/*pqab/ |
| Notes | 說文灋省文 |
Definitions
法
- law; rule; regulation; statute
- norm; standard; model; example
- method; way; solution
- (Buddhism) dharma; principle of the universe; teachings of Buddha
- Buddhist; relating to Buddhism
- † to imitate; to emulate
- Short for 法國 (“France; French”).
- A surname.
Compounds
Derived terms from 法
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Descendants
Others:
- → Proto-Tai
- Lao: ແບບ (bǣp, “form; model, standard, example; method; style, manner; brand, type”)
- Thai: แบบ (bɛ̀ɛp, “kind; design, pattern; style; type; model”)
- → Khmer: បែប (bêb, “kind, sort, model, type; style, form, shape; aspect; method, way, situation, condition”)
- → Vietnamese: phép (“rule, custom, usage, method; permission, authorisation; magical power”)
Japanese
Kanji
法
Readings
- Goon: ほう (hō) > ほふ (hofu)
- Kan’on: ほう (hō) > はふ (hafu)
- Kan’yōon: はっ (haQ), ほっ (hoQ)
- Kun: のり (nori), おきて (okite), のっとる (nottoru)
- Nanori: かず (kazu), つね (tsune), のり (nori), はかる (hakaru)
Compounds
Noun
法 (hiragana ほう, romaji hō, historical hiragana はふ)
References
- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.
Korean
Hanja
法 • (beop) (hangeul 법, revised beop, McCune-Reischauer pŏp, Yale pep)
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Vietnamese
Han character
法 (pháp, phấp, phép, phăm, phắp)
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