伐

伐 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人戈 (OI), four-corner 2325₀, composition ⿰亻戈)

• 㘺, 浌, 栰, 䣹, 䤦, 垡, 茷, 筏, 薎, 閥, 阀

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 96, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 439
• Dae Jaweon: page 203, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 120, character 8
• Unihan data for U+4F10

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): ⺅ (“person”) + 戈 (“spear”). Based on the image of cutting a person’s neck with a spear, it expresses the meanings of "to cut off" or "to strike."^[1]

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *N-pat (“to strike”).

伐

1. to kill; to slaughter; to behead
2. to hack; to fell; to cut down; to hew

   • 坎坎伐檀兮，寘之河之干兮，河水清且漣猗。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     坎坎伐檀兮，寘之河之干兮，河水清且涟猗。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Kǎnkǎn fá tán xī, zhì zhī hé zhī gān xī, héshuǐ qīng qiě lián yī. [Pinyin]

     Kan-kan go his blows on the sandal trees,
     And he places what he hews on the river's bank,
     Whose waters flow clear and rippling.

3. to knock; to strike; to hit
4. to send troops to suppress; to attack
   • 4th cent. BC, 《竹書紀年》 (Bamboo Annals), s.v. "周宣王" (Xuan King):

     五年... 秋八月，方叔帥師伐荊蠻

     Year 5 [c. 820 BC]... Autumn, Month 8: "Uncle" Fang led a force to slaughter the Jingman.

   • 春，齊師伐我。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     春，齐师伐我。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     Chūn, Qí shī fá wǒ. [Pinyin]

     In the spring the Qi troops invaded us.

   • 諸侯相侵伐，暴虐百姓。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     诸侯相侵伐，暴虐百姓。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Zhūhóu xiāng qīnfá, bàonüè bǎixìng. [Pinyin]

     The feudal lords raided one another and were violent and cruel against the common people.

5. to remove; to eliminate; to take away
6. to damage; to harm; to endanger
7. to defeat; to thwart
8. to criticize; to blame
9. (Chinese astronomy) the name of three stars in the Three Stars mansion: 42 Orionis, θ2 Orionis and ι Orionis
10. ridge soil
11. alternative form of 閥 / 阀 (fá, “merit; achievement”)
12. to brag about (oneself); to flaunt
13. alternative form of 瞂 (fá, “shield”)
14. alternative form of 罰 / 罚 (fá, “to punish”)
15. (Min) to stride; to take a stride; to step forward; to step over
16. (Min) step; footstep; stride
17. (Min) Classifier for footsteps: step
18. (Wu) alternative form of 𠲎 (⁰va, “final interrogative particle on a yes/no question”)
19. (Wu) alternative form of 勿 (“not”)
20. Used in transcription.

    斯洛伐克  ―  Sīluòfákè  ―  Slovakia

    巴伐利亞／巴伐利亚  ―  Bāfálìyà  ―  Bavaria

    威斯特伐利亞／威斯特伐利亚  ―  Wēisītèfálìyà  ―  Westphalia

    呂伐登／吕伐登  ―  Lǚfádēng  ―  Leeuwarden

    皮埃爾·賴伐爾／皮埃尔·赖伐尔  ―  Pí'āi'ěr Làifá'ěr  ―  Pierre Laval

    伐樓拿／伐楼拿  ―  Fálóuná  ―  Varuna

21. a surname

In transcriptions of Buddhist terms, 伐 (MC bjot) is often used to transcribe व (va).

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “伐”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 61.

(Jōyō kanji)

1. to attack, to strike, to cut

• Go-on: ぼち (bochi)
• Kan-on: はつ (hatsu)
• Kan’yō-on: ばつ (batsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: うつ (utsu, 伐つ)、きる (kiru, 伐る)、ほこる (hokoru, 伐る)

伐 (eumhun 칠 벌 (chil beol))

1. hanja form^? of 벌 (“to attack, to strike, to cut”)

• 정벌 (征伐, jeongbeol, “conquest”)

伐: Hán Nôm readings: phạt

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