苻

苻 U+82FB, 苻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82FB ← 苺 [U+82FA] CJK Unified Ideographs 苼 → [U+82FC]

Translingual

Han character

苻 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿人木戈 (TODI), four-corner 4424₀, composition ⿱艹付)

1. kind of herb
2. type of grass

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1025, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30825
• Dae Jaweon: page 1485, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3193, character 12
• Unihan data for U+82FB

Chinese

trad.		苻
simp. #		苻

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (付) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
鉜	*bu
跗	*po, *bos
柎	*po
腑	*poʔ
俯	*poʔ
府	*poʔ
付	*pos
咐	*pos
怤	*pʰo
泭	*pʰo, *bo
姇	*pʰo
紨	*pʰo
拊	*pʰoʔ
弣	*pʰoʔ
符	*bo
苻	*bo
坿	*bo, *bos
腐	*boʔ
附	*bos
駙	*bos
鮒	*bos
袝	*bos
蚹	*bos
胕	*bos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bo) : semantic 艹 + phonetic 付 (OC *pos).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fú, pú (fu², pu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ, ㄆㄨˊ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): fu⁴

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): fu³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fú
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fú
    • Wade–Giles: fu²
    • Yale: fú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pú
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pú
    • Wade–Giles: pʻu²
    • Yale: pú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pwu
    • Palladius: пу (pu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fu⁴
    • Yale: fùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː²¹/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: fu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu²²/

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• Middle Chinese: bju

Rime
Character	苻
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	防無切
Baxter	bju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/bio/
Shao Rongfen	/bio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buə̆/
Li Rong	/bio/
Wang Li	/bĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*bo/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	苻
Reading #	1/1
No.	3521
Phonetic component	付
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	扶
Old Chinese	/*bo/

Definitions

苻

1. ^† a kind of plant (clarification of this definition is needed)
2. a surname

Compounds

• 苻秦
• 苻蘺／苻蓠
• 萑苻
• 萑苻不靖

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03829

Japanese

Kanji

苻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぶ (bu)
• Kan-on: ふ (fu)
• On: ほ (ho)
• Kun: さや (saya); あまかわ (amakawa)

Korean

Hanja

苻 • (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune–Reischauer pu, Yale pu)

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