柏

See also 栢

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 白 – a kind of tree.

Han character

柏 (radical 75 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木竹日 (DHA), four-corner 4690₀, composition ⿰木白)

1. cypress, cedar
2. a surname

References

• KangXi: page 518, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14617
• Dae Jaweon: page 906, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1185, character 3
• Unihan data for U+67CF

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Cantonese

Hanzi

柏 (jyutping baak3, paak3, Yale baak3, paak3)

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Japanese

Kanji

柏

Readings

• On: はく (haku)
• Kun: かしわ (kashiwa)

Proper noun

柏 (hiragana かしわ, romaji Kashiwa)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

柏 (hangeul 백, revised baek, McCune-Reischauer paek, Yale payk)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

柏 (pinyin bǎi (bai3), bó (bo2), bò (bo4), Wade-Giles pai³, po², po⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

柏 (bách, bá)