勃

See also: 艴

Translingual

Han character

勃 (Kangxi radical 19, 力+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 十木大尸 (JDKS), four-corner 4442₇, composition ⿰孛力)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 147, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2351
• Dae Jaweon: page 332, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 370, character 15
• Unihan data for U+52C3

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		勃

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 勃
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (孛) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
誖	*pɯːds, *bɯːds, *bɯːd
悖	*bɯːds, *bɯːd
孛	*bɯːds, *bɯːd
哱	*pʰɯːd
馞	*pʰɯːd, *bɯːd
勃	*bɯːd
餑	*bɯːd
郣	*bɯːd
浡	*bɯːd
桲	*bɯːd
挬	*bɯːd
脖	*bɯːd
鵓	*bɯːd
渤	*bɯːd
綍	*pɯd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bó (bo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): but⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pu̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bó
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bó
    • Wade–Giles: po²
    • Yale: bwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bor
    • Palladius: бо (bo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu̯ɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: but⁶
    • Yale: buht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: but⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bud⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puːt̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pu̍t
    • Tâi-lô: pu̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: put
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /put̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚⁴/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 勃
Mandarin	Beijing	/po³⁵/
	Harbin	/pɤ⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/po⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/pə²¹³/
	Qingdao	/pə⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/po²⁴/
	Xi'an	/po²¹/
	Xining	/pʰɔ⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/puə¹³/
	Lanzhou	/pə⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/pɤ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/pʰu²¹³/
	Chengdu	/po³¹/
	Guiyang	/pʰo²¹/
	Kunming	/pʰu³¹/
	Nanjing	/poʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/pʰəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/pəʔ⁵⁴/
	Pingyao	/pʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/pəʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/bəʔ¹/
	Suzhou	/bəʔ³/
	Hangzhou	/bəʔ²/
	Wenzhou	/bø²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/pʰɔʔ²¹/
	Tunxi	/po⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/pʰu²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/pʰu²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/pʰut̚⁵/
	Taoyuan	/pʰut̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/put̚²/
	Nanning	/put̚²²/
	Hong Kong	/put̚²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/put̚⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/puoʔ⁵/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/pɔ²⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/puak̚⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/fut̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: bwot

Rime
Character	勃
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	沒 (56)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蒲没切
Baxter	bwot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/buət̚/
Pan Wuyun	/buot̚/
Shao Rongfen	/buət̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bwət̚/
Li Rong	/buət̚/
Wang Li	/buət̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱuət̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bó
Expected Cantonese Reflex	but6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ˤut/

  (Zhengzhang): /*bɯːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	勃
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bó
Middle Chinese	‹ bwot ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˁut/
English	confused
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	勃
Reading #	1/1
No.	974
Phonetic component	孛
Rime group	物
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	勃
Old Chinese	/*bɯːd/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 勃

1. to push; to drive
2. exuberant; vigorous
3. suddenly (changing countenance)

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Japanese

Kanji

勃

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. suddenness, something that happens suddenly
2. rise

Readings

• Go-on: ぼち (bochi)
• Kan-on: ほつ (hotsu)
• Kan’yō-on: ぼつ (botsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: にわかに (niwakani, 勃かに); おこる (okoru, 勃る)

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Korean

Hanja

勃 (eum 발 (bal))

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Vietnamese

Han character

勃: Hán Nôm readings: bột

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