甫

See also: 叀

Translingual

Han character

甫 (Kangxi radical 101, 用+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 戈十月 (IJB), four-corner 5322₇)

Derived characters

• 俌, 陠, 埔, 捕, 哺, 峬, 浦, 蒲, 悑, 辅, 輔, 晡, 脯, 烳, 铺, 鋪, 秿, 補, 蜅, 酺, 豧, 誧, 舖, 舗, 餔, 鬴, 麱, 𫚙, 鯆, 黼, 郙, 鵏, 莆, 乶, 尃, 旉, 喸, 盙, 圃, 庯, 痡, 匍, 逋, 牖

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 756, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21706
• Dae Jaweon: page 1166, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 20, character 1
• Unihan data for U+752B

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		甫

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 甫
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
豧	*pʰoːs, *pʰa, *pʰas
縛	*baːɡs, *baɡ
逋	*paː
餔	*paː, *baːs
晡	*paː
庯	*paː
陠	*paː, *pʰaː
鵏	*paː, *baːs
峬	*paː
誧	*paː, *pʰaː, *pʰaːʔ, *pʰaːs
秿	*paː, *pʰa, *baʔ
鯆	*paː, *pʰaː, *paʔ
補	*paːʔ
圃	*paːʔ, *paːs
鋪	*pʰaː, *pʰaːs, *pʰa
痡	*pʰaː, *pʰa
浦	*pʰaːʔ
烳	*pʰaːʔ
溥	*pʰaːʔ, *paːɡ
悑	*pʰaːs
酺	*baː
匍	*baː
蜅	*baː, *paʔ
脯	*baː, *paʔ
葡	*baː
蒱	*baː
蒲	*baː
簿	*baːʔ, *baːɡ
捕	*baːs
哺	*baːs
簠	*pa, *paʔ, *pʰas
甫	*paʔ
黼	*paʔ
莆	*paʔ
俌	*paʔ, *pʰaʔ
郙	*paʔ, *pʰa
傅	*paɡs
搏	*paɡs, *paːɡ, *pʰaːɡ
麱	*pʰa
尃	*pʰa
榑	*ba
輔	*baʔ
鬴	*baʔ
賻	*baɡs
博	*paːɡ
髆	*paːɡ
鎛	*paːɡ
猼	*paːɡ
餺	*paːɡ
簙	*paːɡ
鑮	*paːɡ, *baːɡ
欂	*paːɡ, *baɡ, *breːɡ
蒪	*pʰaːɡ
膊	*pʰaːɡ
薄	*baːɡ
礡	*baːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fǔ (fu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu² / pou² / pou³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phú
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hú

  (Teochew, Peng'im): pou²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fǔ
    • Wade–Giles: fu³
    • Yale: fǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuu
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fu² / pou² / pou³
    • Yale: fú / póu / pou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu² / pou² / pou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu² / pou² / pou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː³⁵/, /pʰou̯³⁵/, /pʰou̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phú
    • Hakka Romanization System: pu`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: pu³
    • Sinological IPA: /pʰu³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hú
    • Tâi-lô: hú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: huo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hu⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hu⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hu⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hu⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hu⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: pou²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phóu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰou⁵²/

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• Middle Chinese: pjuX

Rime
Character	甫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	方矩切
Baxter	pjuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pɨoX/
Pan Wuyun	/pioX/
Shao Rongfen	/pioX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puə̆X/
Li Rong	/pioX/
Wang Li	/pĭuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*p(r)aʔ/, /*praʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*paʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	甫	甫
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fǔ	fǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ pjuX ›	‹ pjuX ›
Old Chinese	/*p(r)aʔ/	/*praʔ/
English	begin	great
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	甫
Reading #	1/1
No.	3448
Phonetic component	甫
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	甫
Old Chinese	/*paʔ/
Notes	甲文象蔬在田不似父聲

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 甫

1. man's courtesy name
2. (literary) just; just now

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Japanese

Kanji

甫

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Go-on: ふ (fu)
• Kan-on: ふ (fu)
• Kan’yō-on: ほ (ho)
• Kun: はじめ (hajime, 甫め); すけ (suke)

Proper noun

甫(はじめ) • (Hajime) 

1. a male given name

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Korean

Hanja

甫 • (bo) (hangeul 보, revised bo, McCune–Reischauer po, Yale po)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 甫 (phủ, bo, bô, bố)

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Zhuang

Classifier

甫

1. Sawndip form of boux