腹

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *puɡ): semantic ⺼ ‎(“meat, body”) + phonetic 复 ‎(OC *buɡ) – a part of the body. ⺼ since simplified to 月.

Han character

腹 (radical 130 肉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月人日水 (BOAE), four-corner 7824₇)

1. stomach, belly, abdomen
2. inside

References

• KangXi: page 990, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29722
• Dae Jaweon: page 1442, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2097, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8179

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		腹

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fù (fu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fuk¹
• Min Nan (POJ): pak

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: fù
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: fu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuh
    • IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fuk¹
    • Yale: fūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fuk⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /fʊk̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pak
    • Tâi-lô: pak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pag
    • IPA (Taipei): /pak̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pak̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: /pɨuk̚/▼

Rime
Character	腹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	屋 (4)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	方六切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pɨuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/piuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/piuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puwk̚/
Li Rong	/piuk̚/
Wang Li	/pĭuk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯uk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fu

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*p(r)uk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*puɡ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	腹
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fù
Middle Chinese	‹ pjuwk ›
Old Chinese	/*p(r)uk/
English	belly
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	腹
Reading #	1/1
No.	3543
Phonetic component	复
Rime group	覺
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	福
Old Chinese	/*puɡ/

Definitions

腹

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Japanese

Kanji

腹

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: ふく (fuku)
• Kan’on: ふく (fuku)
• Kun: はら (hara), いだく (idaku)

Compounds

• 一腹 (いっぷく) ‎(ippuku): one litter; one clutch (of eggs)
• 割腹 (かっぷく) ‎(kappuku): disembowelment
• 空腹 (くうふく) ‎(kūfuku): hunger
• 山腹 (さんぷく) ‎(sanpuku): mountainside
• 私腹 (しふく) ‎(shifuku): his own profit
• 切腹 (せっぷく) ‎(seppuku): harakiri
• 鱈腹 (たらふく) ‎(tarafuku): to one's heart's content
• 腹腔 (ふくくう) ‎(fukukū): abdominal cavity
• 腹話術 (ふくわじゅつ) ‎(fukuwajutsu): ventriloquism
• 腹筋 (ふっきん) ‎(fukkin): abdominal muscles
• 満腹 (まんぷく) ‎(manpuku): (noun) glut

Kanji in this term
腹
はら Grade: 6
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) はら​ [hàráꜜ] (Odaka - [2])
• IPA^(key): [ha̠ɾ̠a̠]

Noun

腹 ‎(hiragana はら, romaji hara)

1. belly

Derived terms

• 自腹 (じばら) ‎(jibara): paying by himself (without someone's treat)
• 白腹 (しろはら) ‎(shirohara): pale thrush
• 腹切 (はらき)り ‎(harakiri): harakiri
• 腹芸 (はらげい) ‎(haragei): a skill of conveying emotion without speech
• ビール腹 (ばら) ‎(bīrubara)

See also

• お腹, 御腹, 御中 ‎(おなか, onaka)

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Korean

Hanja

腹 • ‎(bok) (hangeul 복, revised bok, McCune-Reischauer pok, Yale pok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

腹 (phúc, phục)

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