婦

See also: 妇

Translingual

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trad.		婦
simp.		妇

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 女 (“woman”) + 帚 (“broom”) – a woman with a broom.

Han character

婦 (radical 38 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女尸一月 (VSMB), four-corner 4742₇, composition ⿰女帚)

1. married woman
2. woman
3. wife

Descendants

• 妇

References

• KangXi: page 265, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6432
• Dae Jaweon: page 532, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1062, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5A66

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Chinese

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trad.		婦
simp.		妇

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fù (fu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu⁵
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ):
• Min Nan (POJ): pū

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: fù
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: fu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuh
    • IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fu⁵
    • Yale: fúh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /fuː¹³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ:
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pū
    • Tâi-lô: pū
    • IPA (Taipei): /pu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pu²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (婦, reconstructed)
Character (婦), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 並 (3) Final: 尤 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 房久切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/bɨuX/	/bʱi̯ə̯uX/	/biuX/	/biuX/	/buwX/	/bĭəuX/	/biəuX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (婦, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
婦								fù								‹ bjuwX ›								/*mə.bəʔ (or *tsə.-? see Min)/								woman, wife
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
婦					17550					帚					之					1					婦					/*bɯʔ/

Definitions

婦

1. woman

Derived terms

• 慰安婦 (wèi'ānfù)

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Japanese

Kanji

婦

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• On: ふ (fu)
• Kun: よめ (yome), おんな (onna)

Compounds

• 慰安婦 (いあんふ, ianfu)

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Korean

Hanja

婦 (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune-Reischauer pu)

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Derived terms

• 慰安婦 (위안부, wianbu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

婦 (phụ, vợ)

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