寶

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See also: 宝, 寳, and 珤
寶 U+5BF6, 寶
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BF6
← 寵
[U+5BF5] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 寷 →
[U+5BF7]

Translingual[edit]

Japanese 宝
Simplified 宝
Traditional 寶

Han character[edit]

寶 (radical 40, 宀+17, 20 strokes, cangjie input 十一山金 (JMUC), four-corner 30806, composition ⿱𡩧貝)

Derived characters[edit]

Related characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 293, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7376
  • Dae Jaweon: page 579, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 958, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5BF6

Chinese[edit]

trad. 寶
simp. 宝
variant forms
 
寳
珤
㻄
寚
靌
𠋾
𠍙
𡧖
宲
𡩧
𡪓
𡫷
𤥖
𤥯
𤨷
𩇉

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (缶) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
寶 *puːʔ
珤 *puːʔ
缶 *puʔ
缹 *puʔ

Oracle bone script: Ideogrammic compound (會意): 宀 (“house”) + 𤣩 (“jade”) + 貝 (“cowry”) – treasures in a house.

The phonetic component 缶 (OC *puʔ) was added to the character in bronze inscriptions.

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pəw (“price”); cognate with Burmese အဖိုး (a.hpui:, “price”) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT). Peiros and Starostin (1996) also compares it to Tibetan སྤུས (spus, “goods”). Sagart (1999) relates it to 富 (OC *pɯɡs, “rich”). Schuessler (2007) proposes that it could be the same word as 保 (OC *puːʔ, “to take care of; to consider something precious”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 寶
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 博抱切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pɑuX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pɑuX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/pɑuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pawX/
Li
Rong 		/pɑuX/
Wang
Li 		/pɑuX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/pɑuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bǎo
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 寶
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bǎo
Middle
Chinese 		‹ pawX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*pˁuʔ/
English precious thing

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 寶
Reading # 1/1
No. 3264
Phonetic
component 		缶
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		寶
Old
Chinese 		/*puːʔ/

Definitions[edit]

寶

  1. treasure; riches; valuables; precious thing
  2. to treasure; to cherish
  3. to collect (treasures)
  4. treasured; cherished
  5. precious; valuable
  6. (historical) jade token
  7. term of respect, for things related to the emperor, to Buddhism, to Taoism, or to other people
  8. (term of endearment) darling; baby; dear
  9. (gambling) a kind of gambling device

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 寶

Japanese[edit]

Shinjitai

宝

Kyūjitai

寶

Kanji[edit]

寶

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

Kyūjitai form of 宝

  1. precious objects
  2. worldly goods
  3. valuable possessions

Readings[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

寶 • (bo) (hangeul 보, revised bo, McCune–Reischauer po)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

寶 (bảo, báu, bửu)

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