叵

叵	U+53F5, 叵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53F5

← 叴
[U+53F4]

CJK Unified Ideographs

叶 →
[U+53F6]

Translingual

Stroke order (Chinese)

Stroke order (Japan)

Han character

叵 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 尸口 (SR), four-corner 7171₆, composition ⿷匚口)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 173, character 9
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3254
Dae Jaweon: page 385, character 5
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 82, character 3
Unihan data for U+53F5

Chinese

simp. and trad.		叵
alternative forms		尀

Glyph origin

A mirror image of 可.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): pǒ (po³)

(Zhuyin): ㄆㄛˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): po²
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): por³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phó͘ / phó

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: pǒ
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄛˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: pǒ
  - Wade–Giles: pʻo³
  - Yale: pwǒ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: poo
  - Palladius: по (po)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu̯ɔ²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: po²
  - Yale: pó
  - Cantonese Pinyin: po²
  - Guangdong Romanization: po²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɔː³⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: por³
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: pô̤
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɒ⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: por³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɒ³³²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phó͘
  - Tâi-lô: phóo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: phor
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰɔ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pʰɔ⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰɔ⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phó
  - Tâi-lô: phó
  - Phofsit Daibuun: phoir
  - IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰo⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰɤ⁴¹/

Middle Chinese: phaX

Rime
Character	叵
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	普火切
Baxter	phaX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰuɑ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰuɑ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰuɑ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰwa^X/
Li Rong	/pʰuɑ^X/
Wang Li	/pʰuɑ^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pʰuɑ^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pǒ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	po²

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*pkʰaːlʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	叵
Reading #	1/1
No.	9833
Phonetic component
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*pkʰaːlʔ/

Definitions

叵

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) contraction of 不可 (bùkě, “cannot; to be unable to; to be impossible to”)
居心叵測／居心叵测 ― jūxīnpǒcè ― to harbor sinister intentions difficult to guess
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) thereupon
used in 叵羅／叵罗 (pǒluó)

Compounds

人心叵測 / 人心叵测 (rénxīnpǒcè)
叵信
叵奈
叵測 / 叵测 (pǒcè)
叵羅 / 叵罗 (pǒluó)
叵耐 (pǒnài)
居心叵測 / 居心叵测 (jūxīnpǒcè)
心懷叵測 / 心怀叵测 (xīnhuáipǒcè)

References

“叵”, 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–
莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “叵”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 178.

Japanese

Kanji

叵

(Hyōgai kanji)

cannot, be unable to

Readings

On (unclassified): は (ha)
Kun: できない (dekinai)、すこぶる (sukoburu)、ついに (tsuini)

Korean

Hanja

叵 (eum 파 (pa))

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Vietnamese

Han character

叵: Hán Nôm readings: phả

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