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瀑

瀑

Translingual

Han character

瀑 (radical 85 水+15, 18 strokes, cangjie input 水日廿水 (EATE), four-corner 36132)

  1. waterfall, cascade
  2. heavy rain

References

  • KangXi: page 659, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18609
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1069, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1778, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7011

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 瀑

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 瀑
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (暴) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
暴 *boːwɢs, *boːɡ
曝 *boːwɢs, *boːɡ
瀑 *boːwɢs, *boːɡ
虣 *boːwɢs
爆 *proːwɢs, *poːwɢ, *proːwɢ
襮 *poːwɢ, *poːwɢ
嚗 *proːwɢ
謈 *pʰroːwɢ, *broːwɢ
犦 *broːwɢ, *poːwɢ
懪 *broːwɢ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 瀑
Mandarin Beijing /pʰu⁵¹/
/pʰu³⁵/
Harbin /pʰu²⁴/
Tianjin /pʰu⁵³/
Jinan /pɔ²¹/
/pu⁵⁵/ 新
Qingdao /pɔ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /pʰu⁵³/
Xi'an /pʰu⁵³/
Xining /pʰv̩⁵³/
Yinchuan /pʰu¹³/
Lanzhou /pʰu¹³/
Ürümqi /pʰu⁵¹/
Wuhan /pʰu²¹³/
Chengdu /pau¹³/
Guiyang /pʰu²¹/
Kunming /pʰu³¹/
Nanjing /pʰoʔ⁵/
Hefei /pʰəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /pʰəʔ⁵⁴/
Pingyao
Hohhot /pʰaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /boʔ¹/
/bɔ²³/
Suzhou /boʔ³/
Hangzhou /boʔ²/
Wenzhou /bo²¹³/
Hui Shexian /pʰɔ²²/
Tunxi /pʰu¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /pʰu²⁴/
Xiangtan /pʰu²⁴/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /pʰuk̚¹/
Taoyuan /pʰɑu⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pok̚²/
Nanning /pɔk̚²²/
Hong Kong /puk̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /pʰɔk̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /puʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /pʰu²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /pʰak̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔbau³³/
Rime
Character 瀑 瀑
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 並 (3) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 豪 (89) 屋 (3)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 薄報切 蒲木切
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 bú
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 瀑
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bào
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ buwk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[b]ˤawk/
English waterfall?

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 瀑 瀑
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 332 345
Phonetic
component		 暴 暴
Rime
group		 貌 屋
Rime
subdivision		 3 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 暴 暴
Old
Chinese		 /*boːwɢs/ /*boːɡ/

Definitions

瀑

  1. waterfall

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

瀑

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. waterfall, cascade

Readings

Korean

Hanja

瀑 • ‎(pok, po) (hangeul 폭, 포, revised pok, po, McCune-Reischauer p'ok, p'o, Yale phok, pho)

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