匐

匐 U+5310, 匐 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5310 ← 匏 [U+530F] CJK Unified Ideographs 匑 → [U+5311]

Translingual

Han character

匐 (Kangxi radical 20, 勹+9, 11 strokes, Cangjie input 心一口田 (PMRW), four-corner 2762₀, composition ⿹勹畐)

Derived characters

• 𫕑, 𨄑, 蔔

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 151, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2545
• Dae Jaweon: page 341, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 260, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5310

Chinese

simp. and trad.		匐
2nd round simp.		伏
alternative forms		𠣵

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 匐
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
富	*pɯɡs
輻	*pɯɡs, *pɯɡ
副	*pʰɯɡs, *pʰrɯɡ, *pʰɯɡ
褔	*pʰɯɡs
蔔	*bɯːɡ
匐	*bɯːɡ, *bɯɡ
逼	*prɯɡ
偪	*prɯɡ, *pɯɡ
幅	*prɯɡ, *pɯɡ
楅	*prɯɡ, *pɯɡ
湢	*prɯɡ
堛	*pʰrɯɡ
愊	*pʰrɯɡ
踾	*pʰrɯɡ, *brɯɡ, *pɯɡ
揊	*pʰrɯɡ
稫	*pʰrɯɡ
畐	*pʰrɯɡ, *bɯɡ
疈	*pʰrɯɡ
腷	*brɯɡ
鶝	*brɯɡ, *pɯɡ
福	*pɯɡ
蝠	*pɯɡ
葍	*pɯɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fú (fu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baak⁶ / fuk⁶ / buk⁶
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): phe̍t

  (Hailu, HRS): ped^ˋ

• Eastern Min (BUC): bŭk
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): horh⁷
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ho̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fú
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fú
    • Wade–Giles: fu²
    • Yale: fú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: baak⁶ / fuk⁶ / buk⁶
    • Yale: baahk / fuhk / buhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baak⁹ / fuk⁹ / buk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bag⁶ / fug⁶ / bug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːk̚²/, /fʊk̚²/, /pʊk̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phe̍t
    • Hakka Romanization System: ped
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ped⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /pʰet̚⁵/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: ped^ˋ
    • Sinological IPA: /pʰet²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: bŭk
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puʔ⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: horh⁷
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ho̤̍h
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɒʔ⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ho̍k
    • Tâi-lô: ho̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hok
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔk̚²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /hɔk̚⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔk̚¹²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: bjuwk, bok

Rime
Character	匐	匐
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	屋 (4)	德 (131)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	房六切	蒲北切
Baxter	bjuwk	bok
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨuk̚/	/bək̚/
Pan Wuyun	/biuk̚/	/bək̚/
Shao Rongfen	/biuk̚/	/bək̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buwk̚/	/bək̚/
Li Rong	/biuk̚/	/bək̚/
Wang Li	/bĭuk̚/	/bək̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱi̯uk̚/	/bʱək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fú	bó
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fuk6	bak6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ək/, /*[b]ˤək/

  (Zhengzhang): /*bɯːɡ/, /*bɯɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	匐	匐
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fú	fú
Middle Chinese	‹ bjuwk ›	‹ bok ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ək/	/*[b]ˁək/ (< *[b]ˁuk ?)
English	crawl (bu.bjuwk)	crawl
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	匐	匐
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	3377	3406
Phonetic component	畐	畐
Rime group	職	職
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	菔	伏
Old Chinese	/*bɯːɡ/	/*bɯɡ/

Definitions

匐

1. only used in 匍匐 (púfú)

Compounds

• 匍匐 (púfú)
• 匍匐之救
• 匍匐前進 / 匍匐前进
• 匍匐奔喪 / 匍匐奔丧
• 匍匐莖 / 匍匐茎 (púfújīng)
• 壽陵匍匐 / 寿陵匍匐

References

• “匐”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “匐”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00412
• 徐兆泉 (2009), “匐”, in 臺灣四縣腔海陸腔客家話辭典 [Hakka Dictionary of Taiwan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hakka), Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc., page 1006.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “匐”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 69.

Japanese

Kanji

匐

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. crawl

Readings

• Go-on: ぼく (boku)
• Kan-on: ほく (hoku)、ふく (fuku)
• Kun: はらばう (harabau, 匐う)

Korean

Hanja

匐 • (bok) (hangeul 복, revised bok, McCune–Reischauer pok)

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