馥

馥 U+99A5, 馥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-99A5 ← 馤 [U+99A4] CJK Unified Ideographs 馦 → [U+99A6]

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)

Derived characters

• 𧄦

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

Chinese

trad.		馥
simp. #		馥
alternative forms		䫝 𪐒 𩡘

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *brɯɡ, *buɡ) : semantic 香 (“fragrance”) + phonetic 复 (OC *buɡ).

Pronunciation 1

• 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

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

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*buɡ/

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

Definitions

馥

1. (literary) fragrance; scent; aroma
2. (literary) fragrant; aromatic

Compounds

• 桂馥蘭芳／桂馥兰芳
• 殘膏賸馥／残膏剩馥
• 芬馥
• 蘭薰桂馥／兰薰桂馥
• 郁馥
• 餘膏剩馥／余膏剩馥
• 香氣芬馥／香气芬馥
• 香馥馥
• 馥郁 (fùyù)
• 馥馥 (fùfù)

 

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bì
    • Wade–Giles: pi⁴
    • Yale: bì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
    • Palladius: би (bi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: bik

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

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*brɯɡ/

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

Definitions

馥

1. (onomatopoeia) sound of an arrow striking

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–

Japanese

Kanji

馥

(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)
• Nanori: かおる (kaoru)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

馥: Hán Nôm readings: phục, phúc, phốc, phức

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