撫

See also: 抚 and 拊

Translingual

Han character

撫 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 手人廿火 (QOTF), four-corner 5803₁, composition ⿰扌無)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 456, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12743
• Dae Jaweon: page 805, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1958, character 6
• Unihan data for U+64AB

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Chinese

trad.		撫
simp.		抚

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 撫
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
墲	*m̥ʰaː, *maː, *ma
橅	*maː
膴	*hmaː, *ma, *maʔ
幠	*hmaː
鄦	*hmaʔ
撫	*m̥ʰaʔ
無	*ma
瞴	*ma, *maʔ
蕪	*ma
璑	*ma
鷡	*ma
譕	*ma
憮	*ma, *maʔ
舞	*maʔ
廡	*maʔ
嫵	*maʔ
甒	*maʔ
潕	*maʔ
儛	*maʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *m̥ʰaʔ) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 無 (OC *ma).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fǔ (fu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hú / bú

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bhu²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fǔ
    • Wade–Giles: fu³
    • Yale: fǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuu
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fu²
    • Yale: fú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu²
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hú
    • Tâi-lô: hú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: huo
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hu⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /hu⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bú
    • Tâi-lô: bú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: buo
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /bu⁵³/

Note:

• bú - vernacular - (俗);
• hú - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: bhu²
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: bú
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /bu⁵²/

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• Middle Chinese: phjuX

Rime
Character	撫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	芳武切
Baxter	phjuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨoX/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰioX/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰioX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰuə̆X/
Li Rong	/pʰioX/
Wang Li	/pʰĭuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰi̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[pʰ](r)aʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*m̥ʰaʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	撫
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ phjuX ›
Old Chinese	/*[pʰ](r)aʔ/
English	lay the hand on
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	撫
Reading #	1/1
No.	13116
Phonetic component	無
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	撫
Old Chinese	/*m̥ʰaʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 撫

1. to stroke; to caress
2. to pat
3. to console; to comfort

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Japanese

Kanji

撫

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. stroke, pat

Readings

• Go-on: ふ (fu)
• Kan-on: ふ (fu)
• Kan’yō-on: ぶ (bu)
• Kun: なでる (naderu, 撫でる)

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Korean

Hanja

撫 • (mu) (hangeul 무, revised mu, McCune–Reischauer mu, Yale mu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 撫 (vỗ, dỗ, phủ, vồ)

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