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Translingual

Han character

(radical 181 +5, 14 strokes, cangjie input 木水一月金 (DEMBC), four-corner 41286, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1402, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43415
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1919, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4366, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+9817

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*pral, *prals
*pral, *prals
*pralʔ
*pralʔ
*pralʔ, *prals
*prals
*prals, *paːlʔ
*pʰral, *pʰralʔ
*pʰral
*pʰral, *pʰrals
*pʰral
*pʰral
*pʰral
*pʰral
*pʰral, *brals
*pʰral, *pʰrals
*pʰralʔ, *paːl
*bral
*bral
*bralʔ, *brals
*brals
*brals
*mbralʔ
*paːl
*paːl, *baːl
*paːl
*paːlʔ, *paːls
*paːlʔ, *pʰaːlʔ
*pʰaːl, *pʰaːlʔ, *pʰaːls
*pʰaːl
*pʰaːl
*pʰaːls
*baːl
*baːl

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial () (2) (2) (2)
Final () (95) (95) (95)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed Closed
Division () I I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pʰuɑ/ /pʰuɑX/ /pʰuɑH/
Pan
Wuyun
/pʰuɑ/ /pʰuɑX/ /pʰuɑH/
Shao
Rongfen
/pʰuɑ/ /pʰuɑX/ /pʰuɑH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pʰwa/ /pʰwaX/ /pʰwaH/
Li
Rong
/pʰuɑ/ /pʰuɑX/ /pʰuɑH/
Wang
Li
/pʰuɑ/ /pʰuɑX/ /pʰuɑH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pʰuɑ/ /pʰuɑX/ /pʰuɑH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ pha ›
Old
Chinese
/*pʰˤa[j]/
English slanting, oblique

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 # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 9727 9730 9733
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pʰaːl/ /*pʰaːlʔ/ /*pʰaːls/

Definitions

  1. leaning to one side, oblique
  2. very, rather

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(pa) (hangeul , revised pa, McCune-Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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References