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胞

胞

See also: 脬

Translingual

Han character

胞 (radical 130 肉+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月心口山 (BPRU), four-corner 77212, composition ⿰月包)

  1. womb, placenta, fetal membrane
  2. blood (family relationship)
  3. cell (biology)

References

  • KangXi: page 979, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29396
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1430, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2062, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+80DE

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 胞

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 胞
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (勹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
袍 *buː
袌 *buː, *buːs
軳 *buː
抱 *buːʔ
勽 *buːs, *mɯnʔ
菢 *buːs
勹 *pruː
包 *pruː
胞 *pruː, *pʰruː
苞 *pruː
枹 *pruː, *bu, *bu
飽 *pruːʔ
泡 *pʰruː, *m̥ʰruːs, *bruː
炮 *pʰruːs, *bruː
皰 *pʰruːs, *bruːs
疱 *pʰruːs, *bruːs
跑 *bruː, *bruːɡ
咆 *bruː
庖 *bruː
匏 *bruː
刨 *bruː
狍 *bruː
炰 *bruː
鉋 *bruː, *bruːs
瓟 *bruː, *bruːɡ
颮 *bruː, *pʰruːɡ
鞄 *bruː, *bruːʔ, *bruːs, *pʰruːɡ
鮑 *bruːʔ
骲 *bruːʔ, *bruːs, *bruːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
玸 *bu
雹 *bruːɡ
窇 *bruːɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 胞 胞
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 幫 (1) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 肴 (90) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) II II
Fanqie 布交切 匹交切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pˠau/ /pʰˠau/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pᵚau/ /pʰᵚau/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pau/ /pʰau/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /paɨw/ /pʰaɨw/
Li
Rong		 /pau/ /pʰau/
Wang
Li		 /pau/ /pʰau/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pau/ /pʰau/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bāo pāo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 胞
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bāo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pæw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pˤ<r>u/
English womb

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 胞 胞
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 274 279
Phonetic
component		 勹 勹
Rime
group		 幽 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 包 胞
Old
Chinese		 /*pruː/ /*pʰruː/

Definitions

胞

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Japanese

Kanji

胞

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

胞 • ‎(po) (hangeul 포, revised po, McCune-Reischauer p'o, Yale pho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

胞 (bào, nhau, rau)

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