波

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Translingual[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Han character[edit]

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

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

Derived characters[edit]

Descendants[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • 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

Cantonese[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

波 (Yale bo1)

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

波 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Noun[edit]

波 (hiragana なみ, romaji nami)

  1. wave

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

  1. (물결, mulgyeol) wave, undulation

Derived terms[edit]

Mandarin[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

波 (pinyin bēi (bei1), bì (bi4), bō (bo1), Wade-Giles pei1, pi4, po1)

Compounds[edit]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

波 (ba, bể)

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