桴

桴 U+6874, 桴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6874 ← 桳 [U+6873] CJK Unified Ideographs 桵 → [U+6875]

Translingual

Han character

桴 (radical 75 木+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木月弓木 (DBND), four-corner 4294₇, composition ⿰木孚)

References

• KangXi: page 527, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14807
• Dae Jaweon: page 915, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1217, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6874

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		桴

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (孚) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
殍	*brɯwʔ, *browʔ, *pʰuw
脬	*pʰruː
捊	*bruː, *buw
莩	*browʔ, *pʰuw
哹	*pu, *bu
浮	*bu
蜉	*bu
桴	*bu, *pʰuw
罦	*bu, *pʰuw
琈	*bu
粰	*bu
烰	*bu
艀	*bu
俘	*pʰuw
孚	*pʰuw
孵	*pʰuw
稃	*pʰuw
郛	*pʰuw
筟	*pʰuw

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fú (fu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: fú
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
    • Wade-Giles: fu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
    • IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fu¹
    • Yale: fū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu¹
    • IPA ^(key): /fuː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /pʰɨo/, /bɨu/▼

Rime
Character	桴	桴
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	芳無切	縛謀切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨo/	/bɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰio/	/biu/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰio/	/biəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰuə̆/	/buw/
Li Rong	/pʰio/	/biu/
Wang Li	/pʰĭu/	/bĭəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰi̯u/	/bʱi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fū	fóu

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*bu/, /*pʰuw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	桴	桴
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	3348	3364
Phonetic component	孚	孚
Rime group	幽	幽
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	浮	敷
Old Chinese	/*bu/	/*pʰuw/

Definitions

桴

1. raft
2. drum stick
3. ridgepole

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Japanese

Kanji

桴

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. drumstick, mallet
2. raft

Readings

• Goon: ふ (fu); ぶ (bu)
• Kan’on: ふ (fu); ふう (fū)
• Kun: ばち (bachi, 桴); ぶち (buchi, 桴); いかだ (ikada, 桴)

Etymology 1

桴 (bachi): a selection of taiko drumsticks.

Kanji in this term
桴
ばち Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Might be a sound shift from buchi (see below), from the sense of striking.

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ばち​ [bàchíꜜ] (Odaka – [2])
  • IPA^(key): [ba̠t͡ɕi]

Alternative forms

• 撥, 枹

Noun

桴 (hiragana ばち, katakana バチ, rōmaji bachi)

1. 桴, 枹: a drum stick for instruments such as the taiko and gong, a percussion mallet

   Synonyms: 桴 (buchi) (see below)

2. 撥, 桴: in 雅楽 (gagaku, “traditional Japanese court music”), the plectra or picks used to play the biwa lute and shamisen, together with the sticks and other objects held by the dancer in 舞楽 (bugaku, “traditional Japanese court dance”)

   the former is generally spelled 撥, and the latter 桴

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
桴
ぶち Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Appears to be the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 打つ (butsu, “to strike something, to hit something”).

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [bɯ̟ᵝt͡ɕi]

Noun

桴 (hiragana ぶち, rōmaji buchi)

1. (archaic, possibly obsolete) a drum stick for instruments such as the taiko and gong, a percussion mallet

Etymology 3

桴 (ikada): a raft on a river in Germany.

Kanji in this term
桴
いかだ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.

Appears to be a possible compound, but the ultimate derivation is unknown.

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) いかだ [ìkádá] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA^(key): [ika̠da̠]

Alternative forms

• 筏 (more common), 栰 (rare)

Noun

桴 (hiragana いかだ, katakana イカダ, rōmaji ikada)

1. a raft

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Korean

Hanja

桴 • (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune-Reischauer pu, Yale pu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: phù

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References

• Nom Foundation