哺

哺 U+54FA, 哺 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54FA ← 哹 [U+54F9] CJK Unified Ideographs 哻 → [U+54FB]

Translingual

Han character

哺 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 口戈十月 (RIJB), four-corner 6302₇, composition ⿰口甫)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 191, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3676
• Dae Jaweon: page 410, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 626, character 7
• Unihan data for U+54FA

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		哺
alternative forms		餔 𫗦 晡 䊇

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
豧	*pʰoːs, *pʰa, *pʰas
縛	*baːɡs, *baɡ
逋	*paː
餔	*paː, *baːs
晡	*paː
庯	*paː
陠	*paː, *pʰaː
鵏	*paː, *baːs
峬	*paː
誧	*paː, *pʰaː, *pʰaːʔ, *pʰaːs
秿	*paː, *pʰa, *baʔ
鯆	*paː, *pʰaː, *paʔ
補	*paːʔ
圃	*paːʔ, *paːs
鋪	*pʰaː, *pʰaːs, *pʰa
痡	*pʰaː, *pʰa
浦	*pʰaːʔ
烳	*pʰaːʔ
溥	*pʰaːʔ, *paːɡ
悑	*pʰaːs
酺	*baː
匍	*baː
蜅	*baː, *paʔ
脯	*baː, *paʔ
葡	*baː
蒱	*baː
蒲	*baː
簿	*baːʔ, *baːɡ
捕	*baːs
哺	*baːs
簠	*pa, *paʔ, *pʰas
甫	*paʔ
黼	*paʔ
莆	*paʔ
俌	*paʔ, *pʰaʔ
郙	*paʔ, *pʰa
傅	*paɡs
搏	*paɡs, *paːɡ, *pʰaːɡ
麱	*pʰa
尃	*pʰa
榑	*ba
輔	*baʔ
鬴	*baʔ
賻	*baɡs
博	*paːɡ
髆	*paːɡ
鎛	*paːɡ
猼	*paːɡ
餺	*paːɡ
簙	*paːɡ
鑮	*paːɡ, *baːɡ
欂	*paːɡ, *baɡ, *breːɡ
蒪	*pʰaːɡ
膊	*pʰaːɡ
薄	*baːɡ
礡	*baːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǔ, pǔ, bù (bu³, pu³, bu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˇ, ㄆㄨˇ, ㄅㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bou⁶ / bou¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pō͘ / pó͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bǔ
    • Wade–Giles: pu³
    • Yale: bǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buu
    • Palladius: бу (bu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, variant in Taiwan)⁺
    • 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, variant in Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bù
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bù
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴
    • Yale: bù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buh
    • Palladius: бу (bu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bou⁶ / bou¹
    • Yale: bouh / bōu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bou⁶ / bou¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bou⁶ / bou¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pou̯²²/, /pou̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pō͘
    • Tâi-lô: pōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: po
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pɔ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pɔ²²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pó͘
    • Tâi-lô: póo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: por
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɔ⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: buH

Rime
Character	哺
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	薄故切
Baxter	buH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/buoH/
Pan Wuyun	/buoH/
Shao Rongfen	/boH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bɔH/
Li Rong	/boH/
Wang Li	/buH/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱuoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bou6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ˤa-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*baːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	哺
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ buH ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˁa-s/
English	food held in the mouth
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	哺
Reading #	1/1
No.	3444
Phonetic component	甫
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	捕
Old Chinese	/*baːs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 哺

1. (of birds) to feed (with food in the mouth)
2. to feed; to nurse
3. food being chewed in the mouth

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Japanese

Kanji

哺

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぶ (bu)
• Kan-on: ほ (ho, Jōyō)
• Kun: ふくむ (fukumu, 哺む)、はぐくむ (hagukumu, 哺む)

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Korean

Hanja

哺 • (po) (hangeul 포, revised po, McCune–Reischauer p'o)

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Vietnamese

Han character

哺: Hán Nôm readings: bộ, phô, bô, bu, bú, bụ, pho, phò

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