埠

See also: 埔

埠	U+57E0, 埠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-57E0

← 域
[U+57DF]

CJK Unified Ideographs

埡 →
[U+57E1]

Translingual

Han character

埠 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土竹口十 (GHRJ), four-corner 4714₇, composition ⿰土阜)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 230, character 22
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5161
Dae Jaweon: page 466, character 30
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 454, character 6
Unihan data for U+57E0

Chinese

simp. and trad.		埠
alternative forms		⿱垖十埗 (bou6) Cantonese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
阜	*buʔ
埠	*baːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *baːs): semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 阜 (OC *buʔ).

Etymology

A late formation (後起字). Earlier forms of southern Chinese toponyms using the character were often written with the homophone 步 (MC buH) in historical records dated from the Northern Wei to Ming dynasties, which has been conjectured to be a transcription of an earlier Kra-Dai word (Kang, 2010). Cf. 墟 (xū, “market”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bù, fù (bu⁴, fu⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ, ㄈㄨˋ
Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): fau⁶ / bou⁶

(Taishan, Wiktionary): feu⁵
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): phu

(Meixian, Guangdong): fêu⁴
Eastern Min (BUC): buô
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): po͘

(Teochew, Peng'im): bou¹
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶bu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bù
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bù
  - Wade–Giles: pu⁴
  - Yale: bù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buh
  - Palladius: бу (bu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, variant in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
  - 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: fau⁶ / bou⁶
  - Yale: fauh / bouh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fau⁶ / bou⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: feo⁶ / bou⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐu̯²²/, /pou̯²²/

Note:

fau6 - literary;
bou6 - vernacular.

(Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: feu⁵
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /feu³²/

Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phu
  - Hakka Romanization System: pu
  - Hagfa Pinyim: pu⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /pʰu⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: fêu⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /feu⁵³/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: buô
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /puɔ²⁴²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: po͘
  - Tâi-lô: poo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pof
  - IPA (Xiamen): /pɔ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔ³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɔ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pɔ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pɔ⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bou¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pou
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pou³³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶bu
  - MiniDict: bu^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³bu
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /bu²³/

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*baːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	埠
Reading #	1/1
No.	3534
Phonetic component	阜
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	捕
Old Chinese	/*baːs/
Notes	人步今分別唐字

Definitions

埠

pier; wharf; dock
port city
commercial or trading port
city; town
外埠 ― wàibù ― other cities

埠仔 [Cantonese] ― fau⁶ zai² [Jyutping] ― small city; small town

Usage notes

Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian (《现代汉语规范词典》) proscribes the use of the pronunciations fù and fǔ.
Historically used as a suffix for many foreign port cities, such usage is now obsolete and replaced with 市 (shì, “city”).

Synonyms

(pier):

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埠頭 / 埠头
步頭 / 步头 (bùtóu)
港埠 (gǎngbù)
碼頭 / 码头
船埠 (chuánbù)
路頭 / 路头 (Hokkien)
輪埠 / 轮埠 (lúnbù)

Compounds

下查埠
倉埠 / 仓埠 (Cāngbù)
做埠頭 / 做埠头
叻埠 (La̍t-po͘, “Singapore”) (Min Nan, dated)
商埠 (shāngbù)
四十埠 (Sìshíbù)
圩埠
埠河 (Bùhé)
埠稅 / 埠税
埠頭 / 埠头
外埠 (wàibù)
大埠 (Dàbù)
宋埠
官埠橋 / 官埠桥 (Guānbùqiáo)
實叻埠 / 实叻埠 (Si̍t-la̍t-po͘, “Singapore”) (Min Nan, dated)
岷埠 (Bîn-po͘, “Manila”) (Min Nan, dated)
市埠
本埠 (běnbù)
李埠 (Lǐbù)
橫埠 / 横埠 (Héngbù)
水埠
河埠
港埠 (gǎngbù)
瓦埠 (Wǎbù)
石叻埠 (Sit-la̍t-po͘, “Singapore”) (Min Nan, dated)
石埠 (Shíbù)
船埠 (chuánbù)
草埠湖 (Cǎobùhú)
華埠 / 华埠 (huábù, “Chinatown”)
蚌埠
通都大埠
長江埠 / 长江埠 (Chángjiāngbù)
開埠 / 开埠 (kāibù)
香埠
高埠
魚埠 / 鱼埠

Japanese

Kanji

埠

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: ぶ (bu)
Kan-on: ほ (ho)
Kan’yō-on: ふ (fu)
Kun: つか (tsuka, 埠)、はとば (hatoba, 埠)

Korean

Hanja

埠 • (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune–Reischauer pu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

埠: Hán Nôm readings: phụ

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References

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