僕
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See also 仆
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[edit] Translingual
[edit] Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 亻 (“man”) + phonetic 菐
[edit] Han character
僕 (radical 9 人+12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 人廿金人 (OTCO), four-corner 22234)
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] References
- KangXi: page 116, character 18
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1094
- Dae Jaweon: page 247, character 30
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 218, character 9
- Unihan data for U+50D5
[edit] Cantonese
[edit] Hanzi
僕 (simplified 仆, Yale buk6)
[edit] Japanese
[edit] Kanji
[edit] Readings
[edit] Compounds
[edit] Pronoun
僕 (hiragana ぼく, katakana ボク, romaji boku)
- I (personal pronoun; implies that the speaker is a young boy or otherwise boyish)
- you; he; she (when the person to which this refers uses this term to refer to themselves, or is one who is assumed to use it, such as a young boy)
[edit] Usage notes
If used by an adult male, semi-formal; in formal conversation 私 is preferred, while in casual conversation 俺 is preferred.
[edit] Related terms
[edit] Noun
僕 (hiragana しもべ, romaji shimobe)
[edit] Korean
[edit] Hanja
僕 (hangeul 복, revised bok, McCune-Reischauer pok)
[edit] Mandarin
[edit] Hanzi
僕 (simplified 仆, pinyin pú (pu2), Wade-Giles p'u2)
[edit] Middle Chinese
[edit] Han character
僕 (*bhuk)
