沸

Translingual

Han character

沸 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水中中弓 (ELLN), four-corner 3512₇, composition ⿰氵弗)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 614, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17251
• Dae Jaweon: page 1007, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1597, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6CB8

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		沸

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
鄪	*prɯds
費	*prɯds, *pʰɯds, *bɯds
砩	*pads
沸	*pɯds
疿	*pɯds
茀	*pɯds, *pʰɯd
髴	*pʰɯds, *pɯd, *pʰɯd
昲	*pʰɯds
靅	*pʰɯds
狒	*buds
怫	*bɯds, *bɯd
胇	*brɯd
艴	*bɯːd, *pʰɯd
弗	*pɯd
紼	*pɯd
柫	*pɯd
笰	*pɯd
拂	*pʰɯd
刜	*pʰɯd, *bɯd
彿	*pʰɯd
佛	*bɯd
坲	*bɯd
咈	*bɯd
炥	*bɯd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pɯds) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 弗 (OC *pɯd).

Etymology

Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *prut (“to boil”) (STEDT), whence Burmese ပြုတ် (prut, “to boil”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fèi, fú (fei⁴, fu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄟˋ, ㄈㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fai³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hùi / pùi / hut

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fèi
    • Wade–Giles: fei⁴
    • Yale: fèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fey
    • Palladius: фэй (fɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /feɪ̯⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, variant)⁺
    • 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: fai³
    • Yale: fai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: fei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐi̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hùi
    • Tâi-lô: huì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: huix
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hui⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hui²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pùi
    • Tâi-lô: puì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: puix
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pui⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pui²¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hut
    • Tâi-lô: hut
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hud
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hut̚³²/

Note:

• hùi - literary (Quanzhou);
• pùi - vernacular (Quanzhou).

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• Middle Chinese: pj+jH

Rime
Character	沸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	微 (21)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	方味切
Baxter	pj+jH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʉiH/
Pan Wuyun	/pʷɨiH/
Shao Rongfen	/piuəiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pujH/
Li Rong	/piuəiH/
Wang Li	/pĭwəiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/pwe̯iH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fèi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fei3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*Nə.p[u][t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pɯds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	沸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fèi
Middle Chinese	‹ pjɨjH ›
Old Chinese	/*Nə.p[u][t]-s/
English	boil (v.)
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	沸
Reading #	1/1
No.	3301
Phonetic component	弗
Rime group	隊
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	沸
Old Chinese	/*pɯds/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 沸

1. to boil

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Japanese

Kanji

沸

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ひ (hi)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi)
• Kan’yō-on: ふつ (futsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: わく (waku, 沸く, Jōyō); わかす (wakasu, 沸かす, Jōyō)

Derived terms

• 沸(わ)かす (wakasu)

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Korean

Hanja

沸 • (bi, bul) (hangeul 비, 불, revised bi, bul, McCune–Reischauer pi, pul, Yale pi, pul)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 沸 (phí, phất)

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