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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 118 +5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹人木戈 (HODI), four-corner 88243, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 880, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25935
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1308, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2956, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+7B26

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*bu
*po, *bos
*po
*poʔ
*poʔ
*poʔ
*pos
*pos
*pʰo
*pʰo, *bo
*pʰo
*pʰo
*pʰoʔ
*pʰoʔ
*bo
*bo
*bo, *bos
*boʔ
*bos
*bos
*bos
*bos
*bos
*bos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *bo) : semantic  (bamboo) + phonetic  (OC *pos).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bɨo/
Pan
Wuyun
/bio/
Shao
Rongfen
/bio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/buə̆/
Li
Rong
/bio/
Wang
Li
/bĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ bju ›
Old
Chinese
/*[b](r)o/
English a tally

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 # 1/1
No. 3520
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*bo/

Definitions

  1. (historical) tally
  2. symbol; sign
    /    hào   symbol
  3. charm
  4. to match; to correspond
  5. A surname.

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(bu) (hangeul , revised bu, McCune-Reischauer pu, Yale pu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(phù, bùa)

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