樸

See also: 朴

樸 U+6A38, 樸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6A38 ← 樷 [U+6A37] CJK Unified Ideographs 樹 → [U+6A39]

Translingual

Han character

樸 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 木廿金人 (DTCO), four-corner 4293₄, composition ⿰木菐)

Derived characters

• 𡃾, 𤒊

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 551, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15495
• Dae Jaweon: page 940, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1291, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6A38

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Chinese

trad.		樸
simp.		朴*

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
樸	*baː, *pʰroːɡ, *poːɡ, *boːɡ
璞	*pʰroːɡ
墣	*pʰroːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
撲	*broːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
轐	*poːɡ, *buːɡ
獛	*poːɡ
蹼	*poːɡ
襆	*poːɡ, *boɡ
濮	*poːɡ
纀	*poːɡ
醭	*pʰoːɡ
僕	*boːɡ, *buːɡ
菐	*boːɡ, *puɡ
穙	*boːɡ
鏷	*buːɡ
幞	*boɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *baː, *pʰroːɡ, *poːɡ, *boːɡ) : semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 菐 (OC *boːɡ, *puɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pǔ, pú

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄨˇ, ㄆㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): buk⁶ / pok³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phoh / phok

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pǔ
    • Wade–Giles: pʻu³
    • Yale: pǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: puu
    • Palladius: пу (pu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pú
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pú
    • Wade–Giles: pʻu²
    • Yale: pú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pwu
    • Palladius: пу (pu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: buk⁶ / pok³
    • Yale: buhk / pok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: buk⁹ / pok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: bug⁶ / pog³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʊk̚²/, /pʰɔːk̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phoh / phok
    • Tâi-lô: phoh / phok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phoiq, phog
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pʰoʔ³²/, /pʰɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰoʔ⁵/, /pʰɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰoʔ³²/, /pʰɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰoʔ³²/, /pʰɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰɤʔ³²/, /pʰɔk̚³²/

Note: phoh - vernacular, phok - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: bu, buwk, puwk, phaewk

Rime
Character	樸	樸	樸	樸
Reading #	1/4	2/4	3/4	4/4
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	並 (3)	幫 (1)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	模 (23)	屋 (3)	屋 (3)	覺 (10)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I	I	II
Fanqie	薄胡切	蒲木切	博木切	匹角切
Baxter	bu	buwk	puwk	phaewk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/buo/	/buk̚/	/puk̚/	/pʰˠʌk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/buo/	/buk̚/	/puk̚/	/pʰᵚɔk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/bo/	/buk̚/	/puk̚/	/pʰɔk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bɔ/	/bəwk̚/	/pəwk̚/	/pʰaɨwk̚/
Li Rong	/bo/	/buk̚/	/puk̚/	/pʰɔk̚/
Wang Li	/bu/	/buk̚/	/puk̚/	/pʰɔk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱuo/	/bʱuk̚/	/puk̚/	/pʰɔk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pú	bú	bu	po
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pou4	buk6	buk1	pok3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰˤrok/

  (Zhengzhang): /*baː/, /*pʰroːɡ/, /*poːɡ/, /*boːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	樸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ phæwk ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰˁrok/
English	unworked wood
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	樸	樸	樸	樸
Reading #	1/4	2/4	3/4	4/4
No.	9879	9881	9885	9894
Phonetic component	菐	菐	菐	菐
Rime group	魚	屋	屋	屋
Rime subdivision	0	0	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	酺	璞	卜	暴
Old Chinese	/*baː/	/*pʰroːɡ/	/*poːɡ/	/*boːɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 樸

1. simple; plain; rough; unpolished
2. sincere; honest

References

• “Query for 樸”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Kanji

樸

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. unworked wood, bark of a tree
2. sincere, honest

Readings

• Go-on: ほく (hoku)、ぼく (boku)
• Kan-on: はく (haku)、ほく (hoku)
• Kan’yō-on: ぼく (boku)
• Kun: きじ (kiji)、あらき (araki)、すなお (sunao)
• Nanori: しらき (shiraki)

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Korean

Hanja

樸 • (bok, bak) (hangeul 복, 박, revised bok, bak, McCune–Reischauer pok, pak, Yale pok, pak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

樸: Hán Nôm readings: phác, bốc

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