剝

剝 U+525D, 剝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-525D ← 剜 [U+525C] CJK Unified Ideographs 剞 → [U+525E]

See also: 剥

Translingual

Han character

剝 (radical 18 刀+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女水中弓 (VELN), four-corner 2210₀, composition ⿰彔刂)

References

• KangXi: page 141, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2049
• Dae Jaweon: page 321, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 346, character 4
• Unihan data for U+525D

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Chinese

trad.		剝
simp.		剥
alt. forms		剥 𠚩

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 彔 + semantic 刀.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bāo, bō (bao¹, bo¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄠ, ㄅㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mok¹
• Min Nan (POJ): pak / pok

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄠ
    • Wade-Giles: pao¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bau
    • IPA ^(key): /pɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bō
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄛ
    • Wade-Giles: po¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bo
    • IPA ^(key): /pu̯ɔ⁵⁵/

Note: bō - limited to compounds or idiomatic phrases.

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mok¹
    • Yale: mōk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mok⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: mog¹
    • IPA ^(key): /mɔːk̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pak / pok
    • Tâi-lô: pak / pok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pag, pog
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pak̚³²/, /pɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pak̚⁵/, /pɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pak̚³²/, /pɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pak̚³²/, /pɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pak̚³²/, /pɔk̚³²/

Note: pak - vernacular, pok - literary.

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 剝
Mandarin	Beijing	/pɑu⁵⁵/ /po⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/pɤ²⁴/
	Tianjin	/pɑu²¹/ /po²¹/
	Jinan	/pə²¹³/ /pa²¹³/ ～皮
	Qingdao	/pa⁵⁵/ ～皮 /pə⁵⁵/ ～削
	Zhengzhou	/po²⁴/
	Xi'an	/po²¹/
	Xining	/pɔ⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/puə¹³/
	Lanzhou	/pə¹³/
	Ürümqi	/pɤ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/po²¹³/
	Chengdu	/po³¹/
	Guiyang	/po²¹/
	Kunming	/po³¹/
	Nanjing	/poʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/pɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/paʔ²/
	Pingyao	/pʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/paʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/poʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/poʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/poʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/po²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/pɔʔ²¹/
	Tunxi	/po⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/po²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/po²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/pɔʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/pok̚¹/
	Taoyuan	/pok̚²²/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/mɔk̚⁵/
	Nanning	/pɔk̚³³/
	Hong Kong	/pɔk̚⁵/ /mɔk̚⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/pak̚³²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/pɔuʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/pɔ²⁴/ /pu²⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/pak̚²/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/ʔbak̚⁵/

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• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[p]ˤrok/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	剝
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bō
Middle Chinese	‹ pæwk ›
Old Chinese	/*[p]ˤrok/ (~ *mə-pˤrok)
English	flay, peel
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.

Definitions

剝

1. (Classical Chinese) to cut apart
2. to peel; to skin; to shell
3. to fall off or to erode
4. to strip; to deprive

Descendants

• → Lao: ປອກ (pǭk, “peel”)
• → Thai: ปอก (bpɔ̀ɔk, “peel”)

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #5741”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

剝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 剥)

1. peel
2. peel off
3. strip

Readings

• Goon: ほく (hoku)
• Kan’on: はく (haku)
• Kun: はぐ (hagu), むく (muku), はげる (hageru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. to strip
2. undress
3. to cut, trim
4. injure

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Vietnamese

Han character

剝 (bóc)

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