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爆

爆

Translingual

Han character

爆 (radical 86 火+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 火日廿水 (FATE), four-corner 96832, composition ⿰火暴)

  1. crackle, pop, burst, explode, bomb

Related characters

References

  • KangXi: page 686, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19540
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1099, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2245, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+7206

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 爆

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 爆
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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *proːwɢs, *poːwɢ, *proːwɢ) : semantic 火 + phonetic 暴 ‎(OC *boːwɢs, *boːɡ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 爆 爆 爆
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 幫 (1) 幫 (1) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 肴 (90) 覺 (10) 鐸 (104)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Closed
Division (等) II II I
Fanqie 北敎切 北角切 補各切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pˠauH/ /pˠʌk̚/ /pwɑk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pᵚauH/ /pᵚɔk̚/ /pʷɑk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pauH/ /pɔk̚/ /puɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /paɨwH/ /paɨwk̚/ /pwak̚/
Li
Rong		 /pauH/ /pɔk̚/ /puɑk̚/
Wang
Li		 /pauH/ /pɔk̚/ /puɑk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pauH/ /pɔk̚/ /pwɑk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bào bo bo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 爆
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bào
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pæwH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pˤrawk-s/
English explode (not pre-Qín)

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 爆 爆 爆
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 334 335 337
Phonetic
component		 暴 暴 暴
Rime
group		 貌 藥 藥
Rime
subdivision		 3 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 豹 博 剥
Old
Chinese		 /*proːwɢs/ /*poːwɢ/ /*proːwɢ/

Verb

爆

  1. to burst; to explode (from pressure, etc.)
  2. (of bombs, etc.) to explode

Compounds

  • 人口爆炸
  • 冷灰爆豆
  • 地下核爆
  • 塞爆音
  • 塵爆／尘爆
  • 大爆冷門／大爆冷门
  • 大爆滿／大爆满
  • 導爆索／导爆索
  • 引爆 (yǐnbào)
  • 放爆竹
  • 栗爆
  • 核子試爆／核子试爆
  • 核爆
  • 氣爆／气爆
  • 氣爆彈／气爆弹
  • 氫爆／氢爆
  • 火山爆發／火山爆发
  • 火爆
  • 爆仗
  • 爆冷 (bàolěng)
  • 爆冷門／爆冷门 (bàolěngmén)
  • 爆出
  • 爆棚
  • 爆滿／爆满
  • 爆炸 (bàozhà)
  • 爆炸上限
  • 爆炸下限
  • 爆炸性
  • 爆炸波
  • 爆炸物
  • 爆燥
  • 爆燥如雷
  • 爆發／爆发 (bàofā)
  • 爆發力／爆发力
  • 爆發星／爆发星
  • 爆發音／爆发音
  • 爆破 (bàopò)
  • 爆破小組／爆破小组
  • 爆破筒
  • 爆竹 (bàozhú)
  • 爆竿
  • 爆笑 (bàoxiào)
  • 爆米花 (bàomǐhuā)
  • 爆紅／爆红 (bàohóng, “to go viral (rapid sharing)”)
  • 爆肚兒／爆肚儿
  • 爆胎 (bàotāi)
  • 爆裂 (bàoliè)
  • 爆震
  • 耗爆
  • 起爆
  • 音爆
  • 高爆彈／高爆弹

Japanese

Kanji

爆

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. bomb
  2. explode, burst open

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

爆 • ‎(po, pok, bak) (hangeul 포, 폭, 박, McCune-Reischauer p'o, p'ok, pak, Yale pho, phok, pak)

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

爆 (bạo, bạc, bộc)

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