暴

See also 異

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意) – originally (in oracle script) the antler of a buck (at bottom), indicating a savage attack. Subsequently significantly simplified and abstracted: in seal script analyzed as 日 + 出 + 廾, while in current form rather 日 + 共 + 水 (similar to unrelated 異); compare bottom component to bottom right of 様.

Han character

暴 (radical 72 日+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 日廿金水 (ATCE), four-corner 6013₂)

1. violent, brutal, tyrannical

Derived characters

• 爆 曝 襮

References

• KangXi: page 499, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14137
• Dae Jaweon: page 868, character 35
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1532, character 15
• Unihan data for U+66B4

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Cantonese

Hanzi

暴 (Yale bou6)

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Japanese

Kanji

暴 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ぼう (bō), ばく (baku)
• Kun: あばく (暴く, abaku), あばれる (暴れる, abareru)

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Korean

Hanja

暴 (hangeul 폭, 포, revised pok, po, McCune-Reischauer p'ok, p'o, Yale phok, pho)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

暴 (pinyin bào (bao4), Wade-Giles pao⁴)

Usage notes

In Taiwan, 暴 may be pronounced pù in the compound 暴露.

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Vietnamese

Han character

暴 (bạo, bão, bộc, bẹo)