帛

帛 U+5E1B, 帛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E1B ← 帚 [U+5E1A] CJK Unified Ideographs 帜 → [U+5E1C]

Translingual

Han character

帛 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹日中月 (HALB), four-corner 2622₇, composition ⿱白巾)

Derived characters

• 婂 淿 棉 䃇 綿(绵) 艊 䛲 錦(锦) 𢄝 緜 𢅬 幚 幫

References

• KangXi: page 330, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8855
• Dae Jaweon: page 635, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 734, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5E1B

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		帛

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
怕	*pʰraːɡs, *pʰraːɡ
帕	*pʰraːɡs, *mbraːd
粕	*pʰaːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
胉	*pʰaːɡ
泊	*baːɡ
箔	*baːɡ
魄	*tʰaːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
皕	*prɯɡ
伯	*praːɡ
百	*praːɡ
迫	*praːɡ
敀	*praːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
柏	*praːɡ
湐	*praːɡ
拍	*pʰraːɡ
珀	*pʰraːɡ
皛	*pʰraːɡ, *ɡeːwʔ
洦	*mpʰraːɡ, *mbraːɡ
白	*braːɡ
帛	*braːɡ
舶	*braːɡ
鮊	*braːɡ
陌	*mbraːɡ
帞	*mbraːɡ
袹	*mbraːɡ
蛨	*mbraːɡ
貊	*mbraːɡ
佰	*mbraːɡ
銆	*mbraːɡ
碧	*praɡ, *preɡ
咟	*ɦmreːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *braːɡ): phonetic 白 (OC *braːɡ) + semantic 巾 (“cloth”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bó (bo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baak⁶
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): pe̍h / pe̍eh / pia̍k / pe̍k

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bêh⁸

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: bó
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄛˊ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bor
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bó
    • Wade–Giles: po2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pwɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: baak⁶
    • Yale: baahk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baak⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bag⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /päːk̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pe̍h
    • Tâi-lô: pe̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: peh
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /peʔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /peʔ⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pe̍eh
    • Tâi-lô: pe̍eh
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɛʔ¹²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pia̍k
    • Tâi-lô: pia̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piak
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piak̚²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pe̍k
    • Tâi-lô: pi̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pek
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /piɪk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /piɪk̚¹²¹/

Note:

• pe̍h/pe̍eh - vernacular;
• pia̍k/pe̍k - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: bêh⁸
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pe̍h
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /peʔ⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /bˠæk̚/

Rime
Character	帛
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	陌 (113)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	傍陌切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠæk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚak̚/
Shao Rongfen	/bak̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/baɨjk̚/
Li Rong	/bɐk̚/
Wang Li	/bɐk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱɐk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bé
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bak6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ˤrak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*braːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	帛
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bó
Middle Chinese	‹ bæk ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˁrak/
English	silk
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	帛
Reading #	1/1
No.	208
Phonetic component	白
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	白
Old Chinese	/*braːɡ/

Definitions

帛

1. silks; fabrics
2. wealth; property

Compounds

• 功垂竹帛
• 名垂竹帛
• 垂名竹帛
• 子女玉帛
• 布帛 (bùbó)
• 布帛菽粟 (bùbóshūsù)
• 帛丸
• 帛書／帛书 (bóshū)
• 帛琉 (Bóliú)
• 帛畫／帛画 (bóhuà)
• 幣帛／币帛 (bìbó)
• 披帛

• 束帛
• 束髮封帛／束发封帛
• 毫帛
• 犧牲玉帛／牺牲玉帛
• 玉帛 (yùbó)
• 玉帛笙歌
• 竹帛
• 簡帛書／简帛书 (jiǎnbóshū)
• 粟帛 (sùbó)
• 絹帛／绢帛 (juànbó)
• 縑帛／缣帛 (jiānbó)

• 衣不重帛
• 衣帛食肉
• 衲帛
• 裂帛
• 財帛／财帛
• 賜帛／赐帛
• 金帛 (jīnbó)
• 錢帛／钱帛
• 隔帛兒／隔帛儿
• 雁帛
• 香帛

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Japanese

Kanji

帛

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. silk (archaic)

Readings

• Go-on: びゃく (byaku)
• Kan-on: はく (haku)
• Kun: きぬ (kinu, 帛)

Compounds

Compounds

• 金帛(きんぱく) (kinpaku): gold and silk, money and cloths
• 竹帛(ちくはく) (chikuhaku)
• 幣帛(へいはく) (heihaku)

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Korean

Hanja

帛 (eumhun 비단 백 (bidan baek))

1. silk

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Vietnamese

Han character

帛: Hán Nôm readings: bạch

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