ㄆ

See also: タ, ヌ, ﾇ, ㄡ, 夕, 攵, and ㆴ

ㄆ U+3106, ㄆ BOPOMOFO LETTER P ← ㄅ [U+3105] Bopomofo ㄇ → [U+3107]

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Letter

ㄆ

• type: initial consonant
• general transliteration: p
• keyboard key: Q

Descendants

• ㄆ,

Chinese

Glyph origin

Derived from 攵, a variant form of 攴 (pū) (Mandarin: pū), "to knock lightly".

Etymology 1

Initial consonant derived from 攴 (pū) (Mandarin: pū), "to knock lightly" + rhyme.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pē, pō (pe¹, po¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄜ, ㄆㄨㄛ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pē
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄜ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pe
    • Wade–Giles: pʻê¹
    • Yale: pē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pe
    • Palladius: пэ (pɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɤ⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pō
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄨㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: po
    • Wade–Giles: pʻo¹
    • Yale: pwō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: po
    • Palladius: по (po)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu̯ɔ⁵⁵/

Letter

1. 2nd letter of the Zhuyin alphabet
2. 3rd letter of the extended Zhuyin alphabet

Phoneme

1. (general) sound IPA^(key): /pʰ/ (Pinyin: p), which is commonly present in Chinese

Etymology 2

Simplified from 噗 (pū), typing only ㄆ instead of the full character pronunciation on Zhuyin keyboards.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of ㄆ – see 噗. (This character, ㄆ, is an Internet slang variant form of 噗.)

References

• 全國主要方言區方音對照表, Chinese Character Reform Commission, Beijing: ZhonghuaBook Company, 1954
• Unicode Bopomofo block description: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3100.pdf

Northern Qiandong Miao

Letter

1. 2nd letter of the Hmu Zhuyin alphabet.

Phoneme

1. sound IPA^(key): /pʰ/ (Hutton): p'

References

• Joakim Enwall, A Myth Become Reality Vol.1 (Stockholm, 1994) page 198