桴

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		桴

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 桴
Warring States
Bronze inscriptions

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)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fú
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fú
    • Wade–Giles: fu²
    • Yale: fú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fu¹
    • Yale: fū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: phju, bjuw

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
Baxter	phju	bjuw
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu1	fau4

• 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

(deprecated template usage) 桴

1. raft
2. (literary) drumstick (stick used to play drums)

   alt. forms: 枹 (fú)

   Template:zh-syn

   • 故曰，至治之國，君若桴，臣若鼓，技若車，事若馬。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     故曰，至治之国，君若桴，臣若鼓，技若车，事若马。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Han Feizi, circa 2^nd century BCE

     Gù yuē, zhìzhì zhī guó, jūn ruò fú, chén ruò gǔ, jì ruò chē, shì ruò mǎ. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. ridgepole

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Japanese

Kanji

桴

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. drumstick, mallet
2. raft

Readings

• Go-on: 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.

Alternative forms

• 撥, 枹

Noun

桴(ばち) or 桴(バチ) • (bachi) 

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

   Synonym: (see below) 桴 (buchi)

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”).

Noun

桴(ぶち) • (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.

Alternative forms

• 筏 (more common), 栰 (rare)

Noun

桴(いかだ) or 桴(イカダ) • (ikada) 

1. a raft

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Korean

Hanja

桴 (eum 부 (bu))

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Vietnamese

Han character

桴: Hán Nôm readings: phù

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References

• Nom Foundation