圃

圃 U+5703, 圃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5703 ← 圂 [U+5702] CJK Unified Ideographs 圄 → [U+5704]

Translingual

Han character

圃 (Kangxi radical 31, 囗+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 田戈十月 (WIJB), four-corner 6022₇, composition ⿴囗甫)

Derived characters

• 𬝟

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 218, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4774
• Dae Jaweon: page 446, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 718, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5703

Chinese

simp. and trad.		圃

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 圃
Shang		Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
豧	*pʰoːs, *pʰa, *pʰas
縛	*baːɡs, *baɡ
逋	*paː
餔	*paː, *baːs
晡	*paː
庯	*paː
陠	*paː, *pʰaː
鵏	*paː, *baːs
峬	*paː
誧	*paː, *pʰaː, *pʰaːʔ, *pʰaːs
秿	*paː, *pʰa, *baʔ
鯆	*paː, *pʰaː, *paʔ
補	*paːʔ
圃	*paːʔ, *paːs
鋪	*pʰaː, *pʰaːs, *pʰa
痡	*pʰaː, *pʰa
浦	*pʰaːʔ
烳	*pʰaːʔ
溥	*pʰaːʔ, *paːɡ
悑	*pʰaːs
酺	*baː
匍	*baː
蜅	*baː, *paʔ
脯	*baː, *paʔ
葡	*baː
蒱	*baː
蒲	*baː
簿	*baːʔ, *baːɡ
捕	*baːs
哺	*baːs
簠	*pa, *paʔ, *pʰas
甫	*paʔ
黼	*paʔ
莆	*paʔ
俌	*paʔ, *pʰaʔ
郙	*paʔ, *pʰa
傅	*paɡs
搏	*paɡs, *paːɡ, *pʰaːɡ
麱	*pʰa
尃	*pʰa
榑	*ba
輔	*baʔ
鬴	*baʔ
賻	*baɡs
博	*paːɡ
髆	*paːɡ
鎛	*paːɡ
猼	*paːɡ
餺	*paːɡ
簙	*paːɡ
鑮	*paːɡ, *baːɡ
欂	*paːɡ, *baɡ, *breːɡ
蒪	*pʰaːɡ
膊	*pʰaːɡ
薄	*baːɡ
礡	*baːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *paːʔ, *paːs): semantic 囗 + phonetic 甫 (OC *paʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pǔ (pu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pou² / bou²
• Eastern Min (BUC): puō
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): pou³
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): phó͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): pou²

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵pu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pǔ
    • Wade–Giles: pʻu³
    • Yale: pǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: puu
    • Palladius: пу (pu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pou² / bou²
    • Yale: póu / bóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pou² / bou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: pou² / bou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰou̯³⁵/, /pou̯³⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: puō
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰuo³³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: pou³
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: pô
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɔu⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: pou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɔu³³²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phó͘
    • Tâi-lô: phóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phor
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /pʰɔ⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰɔ⁵⁵⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰɔ⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /pʰɔ⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰɔ⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: pou²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phóu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰou⁵²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵pu
    • MiniDict: pu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²pu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pu³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: puX, puH

Rime
Character	圃	圃
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	模 (23)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	博古切	愽故切
Baxter	puX	puH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/puoX/	/puoH/
Pan Wuyun	/puoX/	/puoH/
Shao Rongfen	/poX/	/poH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pɔX/	/pɔH/
Li Rong	/poX/	/poH/
Wang Li	/puX/	/puH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/puoX/	/puoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bǔ	bù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bou2	bou3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*paːʔ/, /*paːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	圃	圃
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	3421	3422
Phonetic component	甫	甫
Rime group	魚	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	補
Old Chinese	/*paːʔ/	/*paːs/

Definitions

圃

1. (literally and figuratively) garden
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) gardener
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) lush; luxuriant

Compounds

• 圃事
• 圃師 / 圃师
• 圃畦
• 園圃 / 园圃 (yuánpǔ)
• 場圃 / 场圃
• 懸圃 / 悬圃
• 抱甕灌圃 / 抱瓮灌圃
• 玄圃
• 玄圃積玉 / 玄圃积玉
• 瑤圃 / 瑶圃
• 縣圃 / 县圃
• 老圃 (lǎopǔ)
• 花圃 (huāpǔ)
• 苗圃 (miáopǔ)
• 茗圃
• 菜圃 (càipǔ)
• 蔬圃
• 蘭圃 / 兰圃
• 辯圃學林 / 辩圃学林
• 農圃 / 农圃

References

• “圃”, 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–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “圃”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 179.

Japanese

Kanji

圃

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. garden
2. gardner

Readings

• On (unclassified): ほ (ho)
• Kun: はたけ (hatake, 圃)

Compounds

• 圃場(ほじょう) (hojō)
• 圃蔬(ほそ) (hoso)
• 蔬圃(そほ) (soho)
• 田圃(たんぼ) (tanbo)
• 苗圃(びょうほ) (byōho)

References

• “^▲圃”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

圃 • (po) (hangeul 포, revised po, McCune–Reischauer p'o)

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Vietnamese

Han character

圃: Hán Nôm readings: bo

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