婦

See also: 妇

婦 U+2F866, 婦 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F866 ← 姘 [U+2F865] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 㛮 → [U+2F867]

Translingual

Han character

婦 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女尸一月 (VSMB), four-corner 4742₇, composition ⿰女帚)

Descendants

• 妇

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 265, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6432
• Dae Jaweon: page 532, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1062, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5A66

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Chinese

trad.		婦
simp.		妇*

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 婦
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
婦	*bɯʔ
帚	*pjuʔ
箒	*pjuʔ
鯞	*pjuʔ

Two possibilities:

• Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bɯʔ) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 帚 (OC *pjuʔ), as supported by the latest Old Chinese reconstructions; or
• Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 女 (“woman”) + 帚 (“broom”) – a woman with a broom.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fù (fu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu⁵ / pou⁵
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fu
• Northern Min (KCR): hū / bṳ̀
• Eastern Min (BUC): hô / bô
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hū / hǔ / pū / pǔ

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hu⁶ / bu⁶

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶vu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fù
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fù
    • Wade–Giles: fu⁴
    • Yale: fù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuh
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fu⁵ / pou⁵
    • Yale: fúh / póuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu⁵ / pou⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu⁵ / pou⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː¹³/, /pʰou̯¹³/

Note:

• fu5 - literary;
• pou5 - colloquial (新婦).

• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fu
    • Hakka Romanization System: fu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /fu⁵⁵/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: hū / bṳ̀
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu⁵⁵/, /py⁴²/

Note:

• hū - literary;
• bṳ̀ - colloquial.

• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: hô / bô
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou²⁴²/, /pou²⁴²/

Note:

• hô - literary;
• bô - colloquial (新婦).

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hū
    • Tâi-lô: hū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hu
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hu³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hu²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hǔ
    • Tâi-lô: hǔ
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hu²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pū
    • Tâi-lô: pū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pu
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pu³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pu²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pǔ
    • Tâi-lô: pǔ
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pu²²/

Note:

• hū/hǔ - literary;
• pū/pǔ - colloquial (新婦).

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: hu⁶ / bu⁶
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hŭ / pŭ
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hu³⁵/, /pu³⁵/

Note:

• hu6 - literary;
• bu6 - colloquial (新婦).

• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶vu
    • MiniDict: vu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³vu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /vu²³/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 婦
Mandarin	Beijing	/fu⁵¹/
	Harbin	/fu⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/fu⁵³/
	Jinan	/fu²¹/
	Qingdao	/fu²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/fu²⁴/
	Xi'an	/fu⁴⁴/
	Xining	/fv̩²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/fu¹³/
	Lanzhou	/fu¹³/
	Ürümqi	/fu²¹³/
	Wuhan	/fu³⁵/
	Chengdu	/fu¹³/
	Guiyang	/fu²¹³/
	Kunming	/fu²¹²/
	Nanjing	/fu⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/fu⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/fu⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/xu³⁵/
	Hohhot	/fu⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/vu²³/
	Suzhou	/vu³¹/
	Hangzhou	/vu¹³/
	Wenzhou	/vøy³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/fu²²/ /fu³⁵/
	Tunxi	/fu²⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/fu⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/ɸu²¹/
Gan	Nanchang	/fu²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/fu⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/fu⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/fu²³/
	Nanning	/fu²⁴/ /pʰu²⁴/
	Hong Kong	/fu¹³/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/hu²²/ /pu²²/ 新～
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/hou²⁴²/ /pou²⁴²/ 新～
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/xu⁴⁴/ /py⁴²/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/hu³⁵/ /pu³⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/fu³³/ /ʔbu³³/ 新～

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• Middle Chinese: bjuwX

Rime
Character	婦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	房久切
Baxter	bjuwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨuX/
Pan Wuyun	/biuX/
Shao Rongfen	/biəuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buwX/
Li Rong	/biuX/
Wang Li	/bĭəuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ə̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fau6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mə.bəʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*bɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	婦
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fù
Middle Chinese	‹ bjuwX ›
Old Chinese	/*mə.bəʔ/ (or *tsə.-? see Min)
English	woman, wife
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	婦
Reading #	1/1
No.	17550
Phonetic component	帚
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	婦
Old Chinese	/*bɯʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 婦

1. married woman
2. woman
3. wife

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

婦

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. lady
2. woman

Readings

• Go-on: ぶ (bu)
• Kan-on: ふう (fū)
• Kan’yō-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
• Kun: おんな (onna, 婦)^{←をんな (wonna, 婦, historical)}; つま (tsuma, 婦); よめ (yome, 婦)

Compounds

• 慰安婦(いあんふ) (ianfu)

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Korean

Hanja

婦 • (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune–Reischauer pu)

1. married women
2. woman
3. wife

Derived terms

• 慰安婦 (위안부, wianbu)
• 賣春婦 (매춘부, maechunbu)
• 主婦 (주부, jubu)
• 夫婦 (부부, bubu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 婦 (phụ, vợ)

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