爆

Translingual

Han character

爆 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 火日廿水 (FATE), four-corner 9683₂, composition ⿰火暴)

1. crackle, pop, burst, explode, bomb

Related characters

• 曝

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 686, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19540
• Dae Jaweon: page 1099, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2245, character 11
• Unihan data for U+7206

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Chinese

trad.		爆
simp. #		爆
alternative forms		𤆊 second round simplified

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 爆
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
暴	*boːwɢs, *boːɡ
曝	*boːwɢs, *boːɡ
瀑	*boːwɢs, *boːɡ
虣	*boːwɢs
爆	*proːwɢs, *poːwɢ, *proːwɢ
襮	*poːwɢ, *poːwɢ
嚗	*proːwɢ
謈	*pʰroːwɢ, *broːwɢ
犦	*broːwɢ, *poːwɢ
懪	*broːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *proːwɢs, *poːwɢ, *proːwɢ) : semantic 火 + phonetic 暴 (OC *boːwɢs, *boːɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bào (bao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): paau³ / baau³ / bok³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pau
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): po̍k / pho̍k

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bao⁶ / pag⁸

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bào
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bào
    • Wade–Giles: pao⁴
    • Yale: bàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: baw
    • Palladius: бао (bao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: paau³ / baau³ / bok³
    • Yale: paau / baau / bok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: paau³ / baau³ / bok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: pao³ / bao³ / bog³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰaːu̯³³/, /paːu̯³³/, /pɔːk̚³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pau
    • Hakka Romanization System: bau
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bau⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /pau̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: po̍k
    • Tâi-lô: po̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pok
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɔk̚¹²¹/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pho̍k
    • Tâi-lô: pho̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phok
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pʰɔk̚⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bao⁶ / pag⁸
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pău / pha̍k
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pau³⁵/, /pʰak̚⁴/

Note: pag8 - used in 爆竹.

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• Middle Chinese: paewH, paewk, pak

Rime
Character	爆	爆	爆
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)	覺 (10)	鐸 (104)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Closed
Division (等)	II	II	I
Fanqie	北敎切	北角切	補各切
Baxter	paewH	paewk	pak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠauH/	/pˠʌk̚/	/pwɑk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚauH/	/pᵚɔk̚/	/pʷɑk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pauH/	/pɔk̚/	/puɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/paɨwH/	/paɨwk̚/	/pwak̚/
Li Rong	/pauH/	/pɔk̚/	/puɑk̚/
Wang Li	/pauH/	/pɔk̚/	/puɑk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/pauH/	/pɔk̚/	/pwɑk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bào	bo	bo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	baau3	bok3	bok3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pˤrawk-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*proːwɢs/, /*poːwɢ/, /*proːwɢ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	爆
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bào
Middle Chinese	‹ pæwH ›
Old Chinese	/*pˁrawk-s/
English	explode (not pre-Qín)
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	爆	爆	爆
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	334	335	337
Phonetic component	暴	暴	暴
Rime group	貌	藥	藥
Rime subdivision	3	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	豹	博	剥
Old Chinese	/*proːwɢs/	/*poːwɢ/	/*proːwɢ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 爆

1. to burst; to explode

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Japanese

Kanji

爆

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. bomb
2. explode, burst open

Readings

• Go-on: ひょう (hyō)^{←へう (feu, historical)}; ほく (hoku)
• Kan-on: はく (haku); ほう (hō)^{←はう (fau, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: ばく (baku, Jōyō)
• Kun: はず (hazu, 爆ず); はぜる (hazeru, 爆ぜる)

Compounds

Compounds

• 爆発(ばくはつ) (bakuhatsu): explosion
• 爆(ばく)発(はつ)的(てき) (bakuhatsuteki): explosive
• 爆薬(ばくやく) (bakuyaku): gunpowder
• 空爆(くうばく) (kūbaku): air raid
• 爆弾(ばくだん) (bakudan): a bomb
• 水爆(すいばく) (suibaku): hydrogen bomb
• 原爆(げんばく) (genbaku): atomic bomb, nuclear bomb
• 原(げん)水(すい)爆(ばく) (gensuibaku): atomic and hydrogen bombs, nuclear weapons in general
• 被(ひ)爆(ばく) (hibaku): being bombed
• 爆殺(ばくさつ) (bakusatsu): killing by bombing
• 爆死(ばくし) (bakushi): death by explosion
• 爆乳(ばくにゅう) (bakunyū): extremely large breasts
• 爆走(ばくそう) (bakusō): explosively loud and fast driving (of a car or motorbike)
• 自(じ)爆(ばく) (jibaku): suicide bombing; deliberately crashing or exploding one's vehicle

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Korean

Hanja

爆 (eumhun 터질 폭 (teojil pok))

1. to explode

Compounds

• 爆彈 (폭탄, poktan)
• 爆發 (폭발, pokbar)
• 爆殺 (폭살, poksar)
• 爆風 (폭풍, pokpung)
• 爆擊 (폭격, pokgyeok)
• 爆笑 (폭소, pokso)
• 爆竹 (폭죽, pokjuk)
• 爆破 (폭파, pokpa)
• 自爆 (자폭, japok)
• 水素爆彈 (수소폭탄, susopoktan)
• 原子爆彈 (원자폭탄, wonjapoktan)
• 時限爆彈 (시한폭탄, shihanpoktan)

Etymology 2

爆 (eumhun 지질 박 (jijil bak))

1. to sear, scorch

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 爆 (bạo, bạc, bộc)

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