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

Traditional	跋
Simplified	跋
Japanese	跋
Korean	跋

Han character

跋 (Kangxi 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 ⿰𧾷犮)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: 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

• Unihan data for U+2F9DA

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／形声, 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
• Eastern Min (BUC): buăk / băk
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): poa̍h / poa̍t

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

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸beq

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

Note:

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

• Southern Min
  • (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 use; to go down; 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
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁸beq
    • MiniDict: beh^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵beq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /bəʔ¹²/

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• Middle Chinese: bat

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
Baxter	bat
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	but6

• 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 tumble; to fall down

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

   跋倒，自家爬起。 [Eastern Min, 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 (dice, moon blocks, etc.)
3. (Southern Min) 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. (Mainland China Hokkien) to go down; to drop (price, etc.)
10. ^† (Zhangzhou Hokkien, Wu) to turn around
11. ^† base of a candle
12. postscript; epilogue; colophon

    Antonym: 序 (xù)

    • 1900 July 24, 梁啟超 [Liang Qichao], quoting 坂崎紫瀾 (Sakazaki Shiran), 和文漢讀法 [The Chinese Method of Reading Japanese]‎^[1], Tokyo: 秀英舍, page 52:

      日本南海紫瀾漁長跋 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
      日本南海紫澜渔长跋 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

      rìběn nánhǎi zǐlán yúzhǎng bá [Pinyin]

      Afterword by Shiran of Nankaidō, Japan

13. 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 (báqiánzhìhòu)
• 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 (báyǔ)
• 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 (fēiyángbáhù)

 

See also

• 跌 (diē)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 跋 – see 䟺. (This character 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

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	Shinjitai (extended)	跋󠄂 跋+󠄂? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
Kyūjitai	跋
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Kanji

跋

(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)

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