波

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 皮 – waves of water.

Han character

波 (radical 85 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水木竹水 (EDHE), four-corner 3414₇, composition ⿰氵皮)

1. waves, breakers
2. undulations
3. Poland
4. Persia
5. a surname

Derived characters

• 啵 𨨏 菠 箥 婆 碆 錃

Descendants

• は

See also

• 疲

References

• KangXi: page 617, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17308
• Dae Jaweon: page 1012, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1597, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6CE2

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		波

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bō (bo¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bo¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ):
• Min Nan (POJ): pho

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bō
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄛ
    • Wade-Giles: po¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bo
    • IPA ^(key): /pu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bo¹
    • Yale: bō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bo¹
    • IPA ^(key): /pɔː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ:
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pho
    • Tâi-lô: pho
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰə⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰə³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (波, reconstructed)
Character (波), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 幫 (1) Final: 戈 Division: I			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 博禾切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/puɑ/	/puɑ/	/puɑ/	/puɑ/	/pwa/	/puɑ/	/puɑ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (波, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
波								bō								‹ pa ›								/*pˤaj/								wave (n.)
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
波					9719					皮					歌					1					波					/*paːl/

Definitions

波

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Compounds

• 波荡
• 波导管
• 波动 (bōdòng)
• 波段
• 波尔卡
• 波峰
• 波幅
• 波腹
• 波谷
• 波光
• 波诡云谲
• 波黑 (Bōhēi)
• 波及
• 波节
• 波兰 (Bōlán)
• 波澜
• 波澜壮阔
• 波浪 (bōlàng)
• 波浪鼓
• 波累
• 波罗门教
• 波能
• 波平浪静
• 波谱
• 波俏
• 波束
• 波斯 (Bōsī)
• 波斯菊
• 波斯猫
• 波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那 (Bōsīníyà hé Hēisāigēwéinà)
• 波速
• 波涛
• 波纹 (bōwén)
• 波纹管
• 波形
• 波源
• 波长
• 波折 (bōzhé)
• 波状热
• 秋波 (qiūbō)
• 香波 (xiāngbō)

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Japanese

Kanji

波

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• On: は (ha), ひ (hi)
• Kun: なみ (nami)

Compounds

• 波形
• 波線
• 波動
• 波長
• 波乱万丈
• 波浪
• 津波 (つなみ, tsunami)
• 波蘭

Noun

波 (hiragana なみ, romaji nami)

1. wave

Proper noun

波 (hiragana なみ, romaji Nami)

1. 波子 Namiko, female given name

Proper noun

波 (hiragana ぽ, romaji Po)

1. (abbreviation) short notation of Poland

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Korean

Hanja

波 (pa) (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune-Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)

1. (물결, mulgyeol) wave, undulation

Derived terms

• 波紋 (파문, pamun) ripple, undulation
• 電波 (전파, jeonpa) electric or radio wave

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Vietnamese

Han character

波 (ba, bể, dương)

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