祓

See also: 鿆

祓 U+7953, 祓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7953 ← 祒 [U+7952] CJK Unified Ideographs 祔 → [U+7954]

Translingual

Han character

祓 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈火戈大水 (IFIKE) or 戈火戈大大 (IFIKK), four-corner 3324₇, composition ⿰礻犮)

1. exorcise, remove evil
2. clean

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 841, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24658
• Dae Jaweon: page 1259, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2391, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7953

Chinese

trad.		祓
simp. #		祓
alternative forms		弗

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
軷	*boːds, *boːd
韍	*bruds, *pud
祓	*pods, *pʰud
蛂	*blɯːd
拔	*bruːd, *boːd, *bod
菝	*bruːd, *boːd
袚	*poːd
茇	*poːd
盋	*poːd
帗	*poːd, *pud
跋	*boːd
魃	*boːd
䣮	*boːd
馛	*boːd
炦	*boːd
颰	*boːd, *pod
妭	*boːd
犮	*boːd
胈	*boːd
鈸	*boːd
苃	*boːd
坺	*boːd, *bod
髮	*pod
冹	*pod, *pud
瞂	*bod
紱	*pud
黻	*pud
翇	*pud

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fú (fu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fat¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hut

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hug⁴

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁷feq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fú
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fú
    • Wade–Giles: fu²
    • Yale: fú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fat¹
    • Yale: fāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fat⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: fed¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐt̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hut
    • Tâi-lô: hut
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hud
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hut̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hut̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hut̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hut̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hut̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hug⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: huk
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huk̚²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁷feq
    • MiniDict: feh^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴feq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /fəʔ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: phjut

Rime
Character	祓
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	物 (60)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	敷勿切
Baxter	phjut
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨut̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰiut̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰiuət̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰut̚/
Li Rong	/pʰiuət̚/
Wang Li	/pʰĭuət̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰi̯uət̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fat1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰut/, /*po[t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pods/, /*pʰud/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	祓	祓
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fèi	fèi
Middle Chinese	‹ phjut ›	‹ pjojH ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰut/	/*po[t]-s/
English	CHECK	expel noxious influences
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	祓	祓
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	128	163
Phonetic component	犮	犮
Rime group	祭	物
Rime subdivision	3	2
Corresponding MC rime	廢	拂
Old Chinese	/*pods/	/*pʰud/
Notes	肺由胏校改

Definitions

祓

1. (literary) to expel; to exorcise (evil spirits)
2. (historical) exorcism ceremony; cleansing sacrifice
3. (literary) to cleanse; to purify

Compounds

• 湔祓
• 祓濯
• 祓禊
• 祓除
• 祓飾／祓饰

 

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	鿆
Kyūjitai	祓

Kanji

祓

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 鿆)

1. purification, cleansing, exorcism

Readings

• On (unclassified): ふつ (futsu); はい (hai)
• Kun: はらう (harau, 祓う)

Compounds

• 祓魔(ふつま) (futsuma)
• 祓魔師(ふつまし) (futsumashi), 祓魔士(ふつまし) (futsumashi)

Derived terms

• 祓(はら)い (harai): general term for rituals of purification in Shinto

Etymology

Kanji in this term
祓
はらえ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 祓 – see the following entry.

【はらえ】 [noun] purification, cleansing, exorcism

(This term, 祓, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

祓 • (bul) (hangeul 불, revised bul, McCune–Reischauer pul, Yale pul)

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