薄

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 艹 + phonetic 溥

Han character

薄 (radical 140 艸+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿水戈戈 (TEII), four-corner 4414₆)

1. thin, slight, weak
2. poor, stingy

References

• KangXi: page 1060, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32083
• Dae Jaweon: page 1523, character 40
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3307, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8584

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Cantonese

Hanzi

薄 (Yale bok6)

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Japanese

Kanji

薄 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. thin, weak, sparse
2. dilute
3. weak (tea)

Readings

• On: はく (haku)
• Go'on: バク (baku)
• Kun: うすい (usui), せまる (semaru)
• Nanori: いたる, すすき (susuki)

Compounds

• 薄氷 (はくひょう, hakuhyō, “thin ice”)
• 薄謝 (はくしゃ, hakusha, “token of gratitude”)
• 花薄荷 (はなはっか, hanahakka, “oregano”)

References

JIS: 4776 Kuten: 3986 Shift JIS: 9496 EUC-JP: C7F6 Frequency: 1009 Nelson: 4075

New Nelson: 5225 Halpern: 2370 Halpern Learners: 1534 Heisig: 227 Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 3k13.11

1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Noun

薄 (katakana ススキ, romaji susuki)

1. Miscanthus sinensis a.k.a. Zebra Grass
2. お薄 (romaji o-susuki)、weak matcha (tea)

Adjective

薄 (い-i declension, hiragana うすい, romaji usui)

1. thin, weak, scanty, sparse

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Korean

Hanja

薄 (hangeul 박, revised bak, McCune-Reischauer pak, Yale pak)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

薄 (pinyin báo (bao2), bó (bo2), bò (bo4), bù (bu4), Wade-Giles pao², po², po⁴, pu⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

薄 (bạc)