爆

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 火 + phonetic 暴.

Han character

爆 (radical 86 火+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 火日廿水 (FATE), four-corner 9683₂, composition ⿰火暴)

1. crackle, pop, burst, explode, bomb

Related characters

• 曝

References

• KangXi: page 686, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19540
• Dae Jaweon: page 1099, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2245, character 11
• Unihan data for U+7206

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Cantonese

Hanzi

爆 (jyutping baau3, Yale baau3)

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Japanese

Kanji

爆 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ばく (baku)
• Kun: さける (sakeru), やく (yaku)

Compounds

爆発 (ばくはつ, bakuhatsu) 爆発的 (ばくはつてきな, bakuhatsuteki) 爆薬 (ばくやく, bakuyaku) 空爆 (くうばく, kūbaku)

爆弾 (ばくだん, bakudan) 水爆 (すいばく, suibaku) 原爆 (げんばく, genbaku) 原水爆 (げんすいばく, gensuibaku)

被爆 (ひばく, hibaku) 爆殺 (ばくさつ, bakusatsu) 爆死 (ばくし, bakushi) 爆乳 (ばくにゅう, bakunyū) 爆走 (ばくそう, bakusō)

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Korean

Hanja

爆 (hangeul 폭, 박, revised pok, bak, McCune-Reischauer p'ok, pak, Yale phok, pak)

Compounds

• 爆彈 (폭탄, poktan)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

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

Compounds

• 爆炸

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Vietnamese

Han character

爆 (bạo)