保

See also: 俣

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 亻 ‎(“person”) + 呆 ‎(“baby”) – a person (mother) protecting her child.

Han character

保 (radical 9 人+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 人口木 (ORD), four-corner 2629₄, composition ⿰亻呆)

Descendants

• Japanese: ほ, ホ

References

• KangXi: page 105, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 702
• Dae Jaweon: page 222, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 160, character 4
• Unihan data for U+4FDD

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		保

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǎo (bao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bou²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄠˇ
    • Wade-Giles: pao³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bao
    • IPA ^(key): /pɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bou²
    • Yale: bóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bou²
    • IPA ^(key): /pou̯³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /pɑu^X/▼

Rime
Character	保
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	博抱切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pɑuX/
Pan Wuyun	/pɑuX/
Shao Rongfen	/pɑuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pawX/
Li Rong	/pɑuX/
Wang Li	/pɑuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/pɑuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bǎo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*pˤuʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*puːʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	保
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ pawX ›
Old Chinese	/*pˤuʔ/
English	protect
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	保
Reading #	1/1
No.	318
Phonetic component	保
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	寶
Old Chinese	/*puːʔ/

Definitions

保

1. to protect, to safeguard, to defend
2. to ensure

Compounds

• 保險／保险 (bǎoxiǎn)
• 保護／保护 (bǎohù)
• 保持 (bǎochí)

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Japanese

Kanji

保

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: ほう (hō)
• Kan’on: ほう (hō)
• Kan’yōon: ほ (ho)
• Kun: たもつ (tamotsu), やすんじる (yasunjiru)

Compounds

保育 (ほいく, ​hoiku) 保険 (ほけん, ​hoken) 保健 (ほけん, ​hoken) 保護 (ほご, ​hogo)

保守 (ほしゅ, ​hoshu) 保障 (ほしょう, ​hoshō) 保証 (ほしょう, ​hoshō) 保身 (ほしん, ​hoshin)

保全 (ほぜん, ​hozen) 保存 (ほぞん, ​hozon) 保養 (ほよう, ​hoyō) 保有 (ほゆう, ​hoyū)

Proper noun

保 ‎(hiragana たもつ, romaji Tamotsu)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

保 • ‎(bo) (hangeul 보, revised bo, McCune-Reischauer po)

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Vietnamese

Han character

保 (bảo, bầu, bửu)

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References

• Nom Foundation