笆

See also: 巴

笆 U+7B06, 笆 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B06 ← 笅 [U+7B05] CJK Unified Ideographs 笇 → [U+7B07]

Translingual

Han character

笆 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹日山 (HAU), four-corner 8871₇, composition ⿱𥫗巴)

1. bamboo fence

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 878, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25865
• Dae Jaweon: page 1306, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2952, character 13
• Unihan data for U+7B06

Chinese

trad.		笆
simp. #		笆
2nd round simp.		巴
alternative forms		䈈

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
巴	*praː
芭	*praː
笆	*praː, *braːʔ
豝	*praː
鈀	*praː, *pʰraː
吧	*praː, *pʰraː
蚆	*praː, *pʰraː
疤	*praː
把	*praːʔ
爸	*praːs, *baʔ
弝	*praːs
靶	*praːs
葩	*pʰraː
舥	*pʰraː
妑	*pʰraː
帊	*pʰraːs
琶	*braː
爬	*braː
杷	*braː, *braːs, *braːs
跁	*braːʔ, *braːs
耙	*braːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *praː, *braːʔ) : semantic 𥫗 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 巴 (OC *praː).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/g/s-pʷa (“bamboo”) (STEDT). Cognate with Mizo rua (“bamboo”), Tibetan སྤ (spa, “cane; bamboo”), Burmese ဝါး (wa:, “bamboo”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bā (ba¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baa¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pa
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹po

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bā
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ba
    • Wade–Giles: pa¹
    • Yale: bā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ba
    • Palladius: ба (ba)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baa¹
    • Yale: bā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ba¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pa
    • Tâi-lô: pa
    • Phofsit Daibuun: paf
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pa³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pa⁴⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ¹po
    • MiniDict: po^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹po
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /po⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: pae, baeX

Rime
Character	笆	笆
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	麻 (98)	麻 (98)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	II
Fanqie	伯加切	傍下切
Baxter	pae	baeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠa/	/bˠaX/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚa/	/bᵚaX/
Shao Rongfen	/pa/	/baX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/paɨ/	/baɨX/
Li Rong	/pa/	/baX/
Wang Li	/pa/	/baX/
Bernard Karlgren	/pa/	/bʱaX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bā	bà
Expected Cantonese Reflex	baa1	baa6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*praː/, /*braːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	笆	笆
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	99	120
Phonetic component	巴	巴
Rime group	魚	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	巴	跁
Old Chinese	/*praː/	/*braːʔ/

Definitions

笆

1. bamboo fence

Compounds

• 一個籬笆三個樁，一個好漢三個幫／一个篱笆三个桩，一个好汉三个帮
• 竹籬笆／竹篱笆
• 笆壁
• 笆斗 (bādǒu)
• 笆簍／笆篓 (bālǒu)
• 笆籬／笆篱 (bālí)
• 笆籬子／笆篱子 (bālízi)
• 籬笆／篱笆
• 籬笆牆／篱笆墙
• 羊撞籬笆／羊撞篱笆

 

References

• “笆”, 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

笆

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: へ (he)
• Kan-on: は (ha)
• Kun: いばらたけ (ibaratake, 笆); せまい (semai, 笆い)

Korean

Hanja

笆 (eum 파 (pa))

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Vietnamese

Han character

笆: Hán Nôm readings: ba

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