蒲

See also: 莆

Translingual

Han character

蒲 (radical 140 艸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿水戈月 (TEIB), four-corner 4412₇, composition ⿱艹浦)

1. bulrush, cattail, reed
2. A surname​.
3. vine
4. various rivers and places

References

• KangXi: page 1049, character 37
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31611
• Dae Jaweon: page 1511, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3269, character 11
• Unihan data for U+84B2

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		蒲

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pú (pu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pou⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): phô͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: pú
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄨˊ
    • Wade-Giles: p'u²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pwu
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: pou⁴
    • Yale: pòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pou⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰou̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phô͘
    • Tâi-lô: phô͘
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰɔ²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰɔ¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (蒲, reconstructed)
Character (蒲), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 並 (3) Final: 模 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 薄胡切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/buo/	/bʱuo/	/bo/	/buo/	/bɔ/	/bu/	/bo/

Old Chinese pronunciation (蒲, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
蒲								pú								‹ bu ›								/*[b]ˤa/								part of personal name
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
蒲					3441					甫					魚					0					酺					/*baː/

Compounds

• 蒲葵 (pú kui)

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Japanese

Kanji

蒲

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. bulrush, reed

Readings

• On: ほ (ho), ぶ (bu)
• Kun: がま (gama), かま (kama)

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Korean

Hanja

蒲 (po) (hangeul 포, revised po, McCune-Reischauer p'o, Yale pho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蒲 (bồ, bù, mồ)

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