腹

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic ⺼ (“meat, body”) + phonetic 复 – 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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Cantonese

Hanzi

腹 (Jyutping fuk1, Yale fuk1)

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Japanese

Kanji

腹

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ふく (fuku)
• Kun: はら (hara), いだく (idaku)

Compounds

• 割腹 (かっぷく, kappuku): disembowelment
• 空腹 (くうふく, kūfuku): hunger
• 山腹 (さんぷく, sanpuku): mountainside
• 自腹 (じばら, jibara): paying by himself (without someone's treat)
• 私腹 (しふく, shifuku): his own profit
• 切腹 (せっぷく, seppuku): harakiri
• 腹切り (はらきり, harakiri): harakiri
• 腹芸 (はらげい, haragei): a skill of conveying emotion without speech
• 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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

腹 (Pinyin fù (fu4), Wade-Giles fu⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

腹 (phúc, phục)