樸

See also 朴

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 菐

Han character

樸 (radical 75 木+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 木廿金人 (DTCO), four-corner 4293₄)

1. simple, honest
2. plain
3. rough

References

• KangXi: page 551, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15495
• Dae Jaweon: page 940, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1291, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6A38

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Cantonese

Hanzi

樸 (simplified 朴, jyutping buk6, pok3, Yale buk6, pok3)

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Japanese

Kanji

樸

Readings

• On: ぼく (boku), はく (haku), ほく (hoku)
• Kun: きじ (kiji), あらき (araki), すなお (sunao)

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Korean

Hanja

樸 (hangeul 복, 박, revised bok, bak, McCune-Reischauer pok, pak, Yale pok, pak)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

樸 (simplified 朴, pinyin pú (pu2), pǔ (pu3), bú (bu2), Wade-Giles p'u², p'u³)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

樸 (pak)

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Min Nan

Pronunciation

• IPA: [pʰɔk˥]
• 樸 (traditional, POJ phok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

樸 (phác)