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腹
腹
Translingual
Han character
腹 (radical 130 肉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月人日水 (BOAE), four-corner 78247)
References
- KangXi: page 990, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29722
- Dae Jaweon: page 1442, character 8
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2097, character 1
- Unihan data for U+8179
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
腹 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 腹
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|---|---|---|
| Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (复) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 愎 | *brɯɡ |
| 鍑 | *puɡs, *puɡ |
| 覆 | *pʰuɡs, *buɡs, *pʰɯːɡ, *pʰuɡ |
| 復 | *buɡs, *buɡ |
| 椱 | *buɡs, *buɡ |
| 複 | *buɡs, *puɡ |
| 馥 | *brɯɡ, *buɡ |
| 腹 | *puɡ |
| 輹 | *puɡ, *buɡ |
| 蝮 | *pʰuɡ |
| 蕧 | *pʰuɡ, *buɡ |
| 复 | *buɡ |
| 鰒 | *buɡ |
| 澓 | *buɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *puɡ) : semantic ⺼ (“meat, body”) + phonetic 复 (OC *buɡ) – a part of the body. ⺼ since simplified to 月.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ
- Wade-Giles: fu4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuh
- IPA (key): /fu⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: fuk1
- Yale: fūk
- Cantonese Pinyin: fuk7
- IPA (key): /fʊk̚⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pak
- Tâi-lô: pak
- Phofsit Daibuun: pag
- IPA (Xiamen): /pak̚³²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /pak̚⁵/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /pak̚³²/
- IPA (Taipei): /pak̚³²/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /pak̚³²/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 腹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 屋 (4) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 方六切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/pɨuk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/piuk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/piuk̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/puwk̚/ |
| Li Rong |
/piuk̚/ |
| Wang Li |
/pĭuk̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/pi̯uk̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
fu |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 腹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
fù |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ pjuwk › |
| Old Chinese |
/*p(r)uk/ |
| English | belly |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 腹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 3543 |
| Phonetic component |
复 |
| Rime group |
覺 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
福 |
| Old Chinese |
/*puɡ/ |
Definitions
腹
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Japanese
Kanji
腹
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Readings
Compounds
- 一腹 (ippuku): one litter; one clutch (of eggs)
- 割腹 (kappuku): disembowelment
- 空腹 (kūfuku): hunger
- 山腹 (sanpuku): mountainside
- 私腹 (shifuku): his own profit
- 切腹 (seppuku): harakiri
- 鱈腹 (tarafuku): to one's heart's content
- 腹腔 (fukukū): abdominal cavity
- 腹話術 (fukuwajutsu): ventriloquism
- 腹筋 (fukkin): abdominal muscles
- 満腹 (manpuku): (noun) glut
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 腹 |
|
はら Grade: 6 |
| kun'yomi |
Pronunciation
Noun
Derived terms
- 自腹 (jibara): paying by himself (without someone's treat)
- 白腹 (shirohara): pale thrush
- 腹切り (harakiri): harakiri
- 腹芸 (haragei): a skill of conveying emotion without speech
- ビール腹 (bīrubara)
See also
References
- ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
Korean
Hanja
腹 • (bok) (hangeul 복, revised bok, McCune-Reischauer pok, Yale pok)
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Vietnamese
Han character
腹 (phúc, phục)
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