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Translingual

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*pa
*pa
*pa
*pa
*pa
*pa
*pa, *ba
*pa
*pa, *ba
*pa, *qu
*pʰa
*ba
*ba
*ba
*ba

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pa) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *pa, *ba).

Han character

(radical 130 +4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月手人 (BQO), four-corner 7528, composition)

  1. skin
  2. superficial, shallow

References

  • KangXi: page 974, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29289
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1426, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2046, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+80A4

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character, , is the simplified form of .)
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