跋

跋 U+8DCB, 跋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8DCB ← 跊 [U+8DCA] CJK Unified Ideographs 跌 → [U+8DCC]

跋 U+2F9DA, 跋 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F9DA ← 𠠄 [U+2F9D9] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 趼 → [U+2F9DB]

Translingual

Han character

跋 (radical 157, 足+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口一戈大水 (RMIKE) or 口一戈大大 (RMIKK), four-corner 6314₄, composition ⿰足犮)

References

• KangXi: page 1223, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37446
• Dae Jaweon: page 1694, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3694, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8DCB

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Chinese

trad.		跋
simp. #		跋

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
軷	*boːds, *boːd
韍	*bruds, *pud
祓	*pods, *pʰud
蛂	*blɯːd
拔	*bruːd, *boːd, *bod
菝	*bruːd, *boːd
袚	*poːd
茇	*poːd
盋	*poːd
帗	*poːd, *pud
跋	*boːd
魃	*boːd
䣮	*boːd
馛	*boːd
炦	*boːd
颰	*boːd, *pod
妭	*boːd
犮	*boːd
胈	*boːd
鈸	*boːd
苃	*boːd
坺	*boːd, *bod
髮	*pod
冹	*pod, *pud
瞂	*bod
紱	*pud
黻	*pud
翇	*pud

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *boːd): semantic 足 (“foot”) + phonetic 犮 (OC *boːd).

Etymology 1

Cognate with 茇 (OC *poːd, “roots of grass”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bá (ba²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat⁶, but⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pak
• Min Dong (BUC): buăk / băk
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): poa̍h / poa̍t

  (Teochew, Peng'im): buah⁸ / buag⁸ / buêg⁸

• Wu (Wiktionary): beq (T5)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: bá
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚˊ
    • Wade–Giles: pa2
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bar
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bá
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat⁶, but⁶
    • Yale: baht, buht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁹, but⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed⁶, bud⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚²/, /puːt̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pak
    • Hakka Romanization System: bag`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bag⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /pak̚²/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: buăk / băk
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puaʔ⁵/, /paʔ⁵/

Note:

• buăk - vernacular (“to fall; to toss”);
• băk - literary (“to trek; postscript”).

Min Nan

• (Hokkien)
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: poa̍h / poa̍t
  • Tâi-lô: pua̍h / pua̍t
  • Phofsit Daibuun: poah, poat
  • IPA (Xiamen): /puaʔ⁴/, /puat̚⁴/
  • IPA (Quanzhou): /puaʔ²⁴/, /puat̚²⁴/
  • IPA (Zhangzhou): /puaʔ¹²¹/, /puat̚¹²¹/
  • IPA (Taipei): /puaʔ⁴/, /puat̚⁴/
  • IPA (Kaohsiung): /puaʔ⁴/, /puat̚⁴/

Note:

• poa̍h - vernacular (“to fall; to toss; to gamble; to turn around”);
• poa̍t - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: buah⁸ / buag⁸ / buêg⁸
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pua̍h / pua̍k / pue̍k
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puaʔ⁴/, /puak̚⁴/, /puek̚⁴/

Note:

• buah8 - vernacular (“to fall; to toss; to gamble”);
• buag8/buêg8 - literary (“to trek; postscript”).

Wu

• (Shanghainese)
  • Wiktionary: beq (T5)
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /b̻əʔ¹²/

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• Middle Chinese: /buɑt̚/

Rime
Character	跋
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	末 (64)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蒲撥切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/buɑt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/bʷɑt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/buɑt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bwat̚/
Li Rong	/buɑt̚/
Wang Li	/buɑt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱuɑt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bó

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*boːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	跋
Reading #	1/1
No.	136
Phonetic component	犮
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	跋
Old Chinese	/*boːd/

Definitions

跋

1. ^† (Min) to fall

   跋著 / 跋着 [Teochew]  ―  buah⁸ dioh⁸ [Peng'im]  ―  to fall down

   跋倒，自家爬起。 [Min Dong, trad. and simp.]

   Buăk dō̤, cê-gă bà kī>ī. / [puaʔ⁵ to³³ t͡si²⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ^(k-)a⁵⁵ pa⁵³ i³³] [Bàng-uâ-cê / IPA]

   If you fall, stand up yourself.

2. (Min) to toss; to throw
3. (Min Nan) to gamble
4. (Hokkien) to use (a scheme, trick, etc.)
5. ^† to trample; to step; to step on
6. to trek; to walk; to go by foot; to travel on land
7. (Hakka) to get up
8. (Hakka) to climb
9. ^† (Zhangzhou Min Nan, Wu) to turn around
10. ^† base of a candle
11. postscript; epilogue; colophon

    Antonym: 序 (xù)

12. A surname​.

Compounds

• 專恣跋扈／专恣跋扈
• 專橫跋扈／专横跋扈 (zhuānhèngbáhù)
• 序跋 (xùbá)
• 拓跋 (Tuòbá)
• 狼跋
• 由跋
• 評跋／评跋
• 跋前疐後／跋前疐后 (báqiánzhìhòu)
• 跋前躓後／跋前踬后
• 跋嘴

• 跋履
• 跋山涉川
• 跋山涉水 (báshānshèshuǐ)
• 跋扈 (báhù)
• 跋扈自恣
• 跋文 (báwén)
• 跋杯 (“buăk-bŭi”)
• 跋桮 (poa̍h-poe)
• 跋步床

• 跋涉 (báshè)
• 跋涉千里 (báshèqiānlǐ)
• 跋涉山川
• 跋胡疐尾
• 跋語／跋语
• 輈張跋扈／辀张跋扈
• 長途跋涉／长途跋涉 (chángtúbáshè)
• 題跋／题跋 (tíbá)
• 飛揚跋扈／飞扬跋扈

See also

• 跌 (diē)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 跋 – see 䟺 (“walk slowly because of the wrong position of the feet; a kind of wolf with shorter forelegs; etc.”). (This character, 跋, is a variant form of 䟺.)

References

• Duffus, William (1883) , “fall”, in English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Swatow, Swatow: English Presbyterian Mission Press, page 102

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Japanese

Kanji

跋

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ばつ (batsu)
• Kan-on: はつ (hatsu)
• Kun: ふむ (fumu, 跋む); おくがき (okugaki, 跋)

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Korean

Hanja

跋 (eum 발 (bal))

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Vietnamese

Han character

跋: Hán Nôm readings: bạt

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References

• Nom Foundation