甫

See also: 叀

Translingual

Han character

甫 (radical 101 用+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 戈十月 (IJB), four-corner 5322₇)

1. begin
2. man, father
3. great

Derived characters

• 尃
• 舖 (舗, 铺) 鋪 (铺)

References

• KangXi: page 756, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21706
• Dae Jaweon: page 1166, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 20, character 1
• Unihan data for U+752B

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		甫

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fǔ (fu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu², pou², pou³
• Min Nan (POJ): hú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: fǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˇ
    • Wade-Giles: fu³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuu
    • IPA ^(key): /fu²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fu², pou², pou³
    • Yale: fú, póu, pou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu², pou², pou³
    • IPA ^(key): /fuː³⁵/, /pʰou̯³⁵/, /pʰou̯³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hú
    • Tâi-lô: hú
    • IPA (Taipei): /hu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hu⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (甫, reconstructed)
Character (甫), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 幫 (1) Final: 虞 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 方矩切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/pɨoX/	/pi̯uX/	/pioX/	/pioX/	/puə̆X/	/pĭuX/	/pioX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (甫, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
甫								fǔ								‹ pjuX ›								/*p(r)aʔ/								begin
甫								fǔ								‹ pjuX ›								/*praʔ/								great
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
甫					3448					甫					魚					0					甫					/*paʔ/					甲文象蔬在田不似父聲

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

甫

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Goon: ふ (fu)
• Kan’on: ふ (fu)
• Kan’yōon: ほ (ho)
• Kun: はじめ (hajime), すけ (suke)

Proper noun

甫 (hiragana はじめ, romaji Hajime)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

甫 (bo) (hangeul 보, revised bo, McCune-Reischauer po, Yale po)

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Vietnamese

Han character

甫 (phủ, bo, bô, bố)

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