渤

Translingual

Han character

渤 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水十木尸 (EJDS), four-corner 3412₇, composition ⿰氵勃)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 634, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17769
• Dae Jaweon: page 1041, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1670, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6E24

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		渤
alternative forms		㴾

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
誖	*pɯːds, *bɯːds, *bɯːd
悖	*bɯːds, *bɯːd
孛	*bɯːds, *bɯːd
哱	*pʰɯːd
馞	*pʰɯːd, *bɯːd
勃	*bɯːd
餑	*bɯːd
郣	*bɯːd
浡	*bɯːd
桲	*bɯːd
挬	*bɯːd
脖	*bɯːd
鵓	*bɯːd
渤	*bɯːd
綍	*pɯd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bó (bo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): but⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pu̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bó
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bó
    • Wade–Giles: po²
    • Yale: bwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bor
    • Palladius: бо (bo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu̯ɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: but⁶
    • Yale: buht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: but⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bud⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puːt̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pu̍t
    • Tâi-lô: pu̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: put
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /put̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: bwot

Rime
Character	渤
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	沒 (56)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蒲没切
Baxter	bwot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/buət̚/
Pan Wuyun	/buot̚/
Shao Rongfen	/buət̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bwət̚/
Li Rong	/buət̚/
Wang Li	/buət̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱuət̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bó
Expected Cantonese Reflex	but6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*bɯːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	渤
Reading #	1/1
No.	986
Phonetic component	孛
Rime group	物
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	勃
Old Chinese	/*bɯːd/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 渤

1. (～海) Bohai Sea in Hebei province
2. (literary) surging; swelling

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02261

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Japanese

Kanji

渤

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぼち (bochi)
• Kan-on: ほつ (hotsu)
• Kan’yō-on: ぼつ (botsu)

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Korean

Hanja

渤 • (bal) (hangeul 발, revised bal, McCune–Reischauer pal, Yale pal)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 渤 (bọt, bột)

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