怖

Translingual

Han character

怖 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 心大中月 (PKLB), four-corner 9402₇, composition ⿰忄布)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 380, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10450
• Dae Jaweon: page 708, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2284, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6016

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		怖

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
抪	*paː, *paːs
布	*paːs
佈	*paːs
怖	*pʰaːs
斧	*paʔ
父	*paʔ, *baʔ
蚥	*paʔ, *baʔ
滏	*baʔ
釜	*baʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bù (bu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bou³
• Northern Min (KCR): bu̿
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pò͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bù
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bù
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴
    • Yale: bù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buh
    • Palladius: бу (bu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bou³
    • Yale: bou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: bou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pou̯³³/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: bu̿
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pò͘
    • Tâi-lô: pòo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pox
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pɔ²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɔ²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pɔ¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pɔ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: phuH, phjot

Rime
Character	怖	怖
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	模 (23)	月 (68)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	普故切	拂伐切
Baxter	phuH	phjot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰuoH/	/pʰʉɐt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰuoH/	/pʰʷiɐt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰoH/	/pʰiuɐt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰɔH/	/pʰuat̚/
Li Rong	/pʰoH/	/pʰiuɐt̚/
Wang Li	/pʰuH/	/pʰĭwɐt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰuoH/	/pʰi̯wɐt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pù	fa
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pou3	faat3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰaːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	怖
Reading #	1/1
No.	3498
Phonetic component	父
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	怖
Old Chinese	/*pʰaːs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 怖

1. to fear; to be afraid
2. to scare; to frighten; to terrify

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Japanese

Kanji

怖

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. dreadful

Readings

• Go-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ほ (ho)
• Kun: こわい (kowai, 怖い, Jōyō); おそれる (osoreru, 怖れる); おじる (ojiru, 怖じる)

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Korean

Hanja

怖 • (po) (hangeul 포, revised po, McCune–Reischauer p'o, Yale pho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 怖 (bố)

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