馥

Translingual

Han character

馥 (Kangxi radical 186, 香+9, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹日人日水 (HAOAE), four-corner 2864₇, composition ⿰香复)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1429, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44545
• Dae Jaweon: page 1956, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4424, character 21
• Unihan data for U+99A5

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Chinese

trad.		馥
simp. #		馥

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 馥
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
愎	*brɯɡ
鍑	*puɡs, *puɡ
覆	*pʰuɡs, *buɡs, *pʰɯːɡ, *pʰuɡ
復	*buɡs, *buɡ
椱	*buɡs, *buɡ
複	*buɡs, *puɡ
馥	*brɯɡ, *buɡ
腹	*puɡ
輹	*puɡ, *buɡ
蝮	*pʰuɡ
蕧	*pʰuɡ, *buɡ
复	*buɡ
鰒	*buɡ
澓	*buɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fù (fu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fuk¹ / fuk⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fù
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fù
    • Wade–Giles: fu⁴
    • Yale: fù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuh
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fuk¹ / fuk⁶
    • Yale: fūk / fuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fuk⁷ / fuk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fug¹ / fug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊk̚⁵/, /fʊk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: bjuwk, bik

Rime
Character	馥	馥
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	屋 (4)	職 (134)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	房六切	符逼切
Baxter	bjuwk	bik
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨuk̚/	/bɨk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/biuk̚/	/bɨk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/biuk̚/	/biek̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buwk̚/	/bik̚/
Li Rong	/biuk̚/	/biək̚/
Wang Li	/bĭuk̚/	/bĭək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯uk̚/	/bʱi̯ək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fú	bí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fuk6	bik6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*brɯɡ/, /*buɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	馥	馥
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	3542	3551
Phonetic component	复	复
Rime group	職	覺
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	愎	伏
Old Chinese	/*brɯɡ/	/*buɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 馥

1. (literary) fragrance; scent; aroma

References

• “馥”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

馥

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: びき (biki); ぶく (buku)
• Kan-on: ひょく (hyoku); ふく (fuku)
• Kun: か (ka); かおる (kaoru, 馥る)

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Korean

Hanja

馥 • (bok) (hangeul 복, revised bok, McCune–Reischauer pok, Yale pok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 馥 (phục, phúc, phốc, phức)

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