皤

皤 U+76A4, 皤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-76A4 ← 皣 [U+76A3] CJK Unified Ideographs 皥 → [U+76A5]

Translingual

Han character

皤 (Kangxi radical 106, 白+12, 17 strokes, cangjie input 竹日竹木田 (HAHDW), four-corner 2266₉, composition ⿰白番)

Derived characters

• 𧂉

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 789, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22784
• Dae Jaweon: page 1204, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2651, character 21
• Unihan data for U+76A4

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Chinese

trad.		皤
simp. #		皤

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
皤	*paːl, *baːl
嶓	*paːl
番	*paːl, *paːls, *pʰaːn, *pʰan, *ban
播	*paːls
譒	*paːls
鄱	*baːl
潘	*pʰaːn
蟠	*baːn, *ban
磻	*baːn
蕃	*pan, *ban
轓	*pan, *pʰan
鱕	*pan
鐇	*pan, *ban
藩	*pan, *ban
籓	*pan
橎	*panʔ
翻	*pʰan
幡	*pʰan
飜	*pʰan
旛	*pʰan, *ban
繙	*pʰan, *ban
燔	*ban
蹯	*ban
膰	*ban
羳	*ban
鷭	*ban
璠	*ban
襎	*ban
墦	*ban

Etymology

Related to 白 (OC *braːɡ) "white" and 燔 (OC *ban) "to burn, to roast" (STEDT; Schuessler (2007)). See 白 for etymology.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pó (po²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): po⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pô / pho

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pó
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pó
    • Wade–Giles: pʻo²
    • Yale: pwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: por
    • Palladius: по (po)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu̯ɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: po⁴
    • Yale: pòh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: po⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: po⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɔː²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pô / pho
    • Tâi-lô: pô / pho
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pooi, phoy
    • IPA (Xiamen): /po²⁴/, /pʰo⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /po²⁴/, /pʰo³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /po¹³/, /pʰo⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /po²⁴/, /pʰo⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pɤ²³/, /pʰɤ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: ba, pa

Rime
Character	皤	皤
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	薄波切	博禾切
Baxter	ba	pa
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/buɑ/	/puɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/buɑ/	/puɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/buɑ/	/puɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bwa/	/pwa/
Li Rong	/buɑ/	/puɑ/
Wang Li	/buɑ/	/puɑ/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱuɑ/	/puɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pó	bō
Expected Cantonese Reflex	po4	bo1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ˤar/

  (Zhengzhang): /*paːl/, /*baːl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	皤
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pó
Middle Chinese	‹ ba ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˁar/
English	white, white-haired
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	皤	皤
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	2869	2876
Phonetic component	番	番
Rime group	歌	歌
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	波	婆
Old Chinese	/*paːl/	/*baːl/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 皤

1. ^† white
2. ^† hoary; whitehaired
3. ^† potbellied; paunchy

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Japanese

Kanji

皤

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): は (ha), ば (ba), はん (han), ばん (ban)

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Korean

Hanja

皤 • (pa) (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune–Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)

1. white