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)

1. bomb
2. explode, burst open

Readings

• Goon: ひょう (hyō) (non-Jōyō reading), (historical) へう (heu), ほく (hoku) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: はく (haku) (non-Jōyō reading), ほう (hō) (non-Jōyō reading), (historical) はう (hau)
• Kan’yōon: ばく (baku)
• Kun: はず (爆ず, hazu) (non-Jōyō reading), はぜる (爆ぜる, hazeru) (non-Jōyō reading)

Compounds

Compounds

爆発 (ばくはつ) (bakuhatsu): explosion 爆発的 (ばくはつてき) (bakuhatsuteki): explosive 爆薬 (ばくやく) (bakuyaku): gunpowder 空爆 (くうばく) (kūbaku): air raid 爆弾 (ばくだん) (bakudan): a bomb 水爆 (すいばく) (suibaku): hydrogen bomb 原爆 (げんばく) (genbaku): atomic bomb, nuclear bomb 原水爆 (げんすいばく) (gensuibaku): atomic and hydrogen bombs, nuclear weapons in general 被爆 (ひばく) (hibaku): being bombed 爆殺 (ばくさつ) (bakusatsu): killing by bombing 爆死 (ばくし) (bakushi): death by explosion 爆乳 (ばくにゅう) (bakunyū): extremely large breasts 爆走 (ばくそう) (bakusō): explosively loud and fast driving (of a car or motorbike) 自爆 (じばく) (jibaku): suicide bombing; deliberately crashing or exploding one's vehicle

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Compounds

• 爆彈 (폭탄, poktan)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

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

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Compounds

• 爆炸
• 宫爆
• 宫爆鸡丁

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Vietnamese

Han character

爆 (bạo)

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