庖

庖 U+5E96, 庖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E96 ← 底 [U+5E95] CJK Unified Ideographs 店 → [U+5E97]

Translingual

Han character

庖 (radical 53 广+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 戈心口山 (IPRU), four-corner 0021₂, composition ⿸广包)

1. kitchen
2. cooking, cuisine

References

• KangXi: page 344, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9266
• Dae Jaweon: page 653, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 879, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5E96

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		庖

Glyph origin

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

Characters in the same phonetic series (勹) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
袍	*buː
袌	*buː, *buːs
軳	*buː
抱	*buːʔ
勽	*buːs, *mɯnʔ
菢	*buːs
勹	*pruː
包	*pruː
胞	*pruː, *pʰruː
苞	*pruː
枹	*pruː, *bu, *bu
飽	*pruːʔ
泡	*pʰruː, *m̥ʰruːs, *bruː
炮	*pʰruːs, *bruː
皰	*pʰruːs, *bruːs
疱	*pʰruːs, *bruːs
跑	*bruː, *bruːɡ
咆	*bruː
庖	*bruː
匏	*bruː
刨	*bruː
狍	*bruː
炰	*bruː
鉋	*bruː, *bruːs
瓟	*bruː, *bruːɡ
颮	*bruː, *pʰruːɡ
鞄	*bruː, *bruːʔ, *bruːs, *pʰruːɡ
鮑	*bruːʔ
骲	*bruːʔ, *bruːs, *bruːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
玸	*bu
雹	*bruːɡ
窇	*bruːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): páo (pao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): paau⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): pâu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: páo
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄠˊ
    • Wade-Giles: p'ao²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: paur
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: paau⁴
    • Yale: pàauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: paau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: pao⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰɑːu̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pâu
    • Tâi-lô: pâu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: paau
    • IPA (Xiamen): /paʊ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /paʊ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /paʊ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /paʊ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /paʊ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /bˠau/▼

Rime
Character	庖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	薄交切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠau/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚau/
Shao Rongfen	/bau/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/baɨw/
Li Rong	/bau/
Wang Li	/bau/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱau/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	páo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*bruː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	庖
Reading #	1/1
No.	287
Phonetic component	勹
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	庖
Old Chinese	/*bruː/

Definitions

庖

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Compounds

• 代庖
• 尸祝代庖
• 庖丁 (páodīng)
• 庖丁解牛
• 庖人
• 庖代

• 庖子
• 庖宰
• 庖廚／庖厨 (páochú)
• 庖犧／庖牺 (Páoxī)
• 庖立

• 庖羲
• 庖鼎
• 治庖
• 良庖
• 越俎代庖

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Japanese

Kanji

庖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ほう (hō)
• Kun: くりや (kuriya, 庖)

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Korean

Hanja

庖 • (po) (hangeul 포, revised po, McCune-Reischauer p'o)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: bào

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References

• Nom Foundation