泡

泡 U+6CE1, 泡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CE1 ← 泠 [U+6CE0] CJK Unified Ideographs 波 → [U+6CE2]

Translingual

Han character

泡 (radical 85 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水心口山 (EPRU), four-corner 3711₂, composition ⿰氵包)

1. bubbles, suds
2. blister
3. soak

References

• KangXi: page 617, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17307
• Dae Jaweon: page 1012, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1591, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6CE1

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		泡

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 泡
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (勹) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
袍	*buː
袌	*buː, *buːs
軳	*buː
抱	*buːʔ
勽	*buːs, *mɯnʔ
菢	*buːs
勹	*pruː
包	*pruː
胞	*pruː, *pʰruː
苞	*pruː
枹	*pruː, *bu, *bu
飽	*pruːʔ
泡	*pʰruː, *m̥ʰruːs, *bruː
炮	*pʰruːs, *bruː
皰	*pʰruːs, *bruːs
疱	*pʰruːs, *bruːs
跑	*bruː, *bruːɡ
咆	*bruː
庖	*bruː
匏	*bruː
刨	*bruː
狍	*bruː
炰	*bruː
鉋	*bruː, *bruːs
瓟	*bruː, *bruːɡ
颮	*bruː, *pʰruːɡ
鞄	*bruː, *bruːʔ, *bruːs, *pʰruːɡ
鮑	*bruːʔ
骲	*bruːʔ, *bruːs, *bruːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
玸	*bu
雹	*bruːɡ
窇	*bruːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pào, pāo (pao⁴, pao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄠˋ, ㄆㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pou⁵, paau⁴, paau³, paau¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pau
• Min Nan (POJ): phàu / phāu / phā / pha / pho / phò

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: pào
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄠˋ
    • Wade-Giles: p'ao⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: paw
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰɑʊ̯⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: pāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄠ
    • Wade-Giles: p'ao¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pau
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: pou⁵, paau⁴, paau³, paau¹
    • Yale: póuh, pàauh, paau, pāau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pou⁵, paau⁴, paau³, paau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: pou⁵, pao⁴, pao³, pao¹
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰou̯¹³/, /pʰɑːu̯²¹/, /pʰɑːu̯³³/, /pʰɑːu̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pau
    • Hakka Romanization System: bau
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bau⁴
    • IPA: /pa̯u⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phàu
    • Tâi-lô: phàu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phaux
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pʰaʊ²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰaʊ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰaʊ²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰaʊ¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰaʊ²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phāu
    • Tâi-lô: phāu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phau
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pʰaʊ²²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰaʊ²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phā
    • Tâi-lô: phā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pha
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰa⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pʰa²²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰa²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pha
    • Tâi-lô: pha
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phaf
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰa³³/
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pho
    • Tâi-lô: pho
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phoy
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰo⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰɤ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phò
    • Tâi-lô: phò
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phoix
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰo¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰɤ²¹/

Note:

• pho - 波 is used in the Mainland;
• phò - 啵 is used in the Mainland.

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• Middle Chinese: /pʰˠau/, /bˠau/▼

Rime
Character	泡	泡
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	II
Fanqie	匹交切	薄交切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰˠau/	/bˠau/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰᵚau/	/bᵚau/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰau/	/bau/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰaɨw/	/baɨw/
Li Rong	/pʰau/	/bau/
Wang Li	/pʰau/	/bau/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰau/	/bʱau/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pāo	páo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰruː/, /*m̥ʰruːs/, /*bruː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	泡	泡	泡
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	278	283	296
Phonetic component	勹	勹	勹
Rime group	幽	幽	幽
Rime subdivision	1	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	胞	奅	庖
Old Chinese	/*pʰruː/	/*m̥ʰruːs/	/*bruː/
Notes		𣶐後起字

Definitions

泡

1. bubble
2. pimple
3. bubblelike object
4. to cause to soak in fluid
5. (slang) to meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, to pick up
6. classifier for urine

Compounds

• 泡沫 (pàomò)
• 泡泡 (pàopào)

• 燈泡／灯泡 (dēngpào)

• 豆泡 (dòupāo)

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Japanese

Kanji

泡

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. bubbles

Readings

• On (unclassified): ほう (hō, Jōyō)
• Kun: あわ (awa, 泡, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 泡盛 (あわもり) (awamori)
• 発 (はっ)泡 (ぽう)酒 (しゅ) (happōshu)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
泡
あわ Grade: S
kun’yomi

Noun

泡 (hiragana あわ, rōmaji awa)

1. bubble
2. foam, head on carbonated beverages such as beer

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Korean

Hanja

泡 • (po) (hangeul 포, revised po, McCune-Reischauer p'o, Yale pho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

泡 (bàu, bảo, bào, bầu, phao)

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