沸

沸	U+6CB8, 沸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CB8

← 沷
[U+6CB7]

CJK Unified Ideographs

油 →
[U+6CB9]

Translingual

Han character

沸 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水中中弓 (ELLN), four-corner 3512₇, composition ⿰氵弗)

Derived characters

𰝌, 𩰾, 𩱣

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 614, character 2
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17251
Dae Jaweon: page 1007, character 6
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1597, character 1
Unihan data for U+6CB8

Chinese

simp. and trad.		沸

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
鄪	*prɯds
費	prɯds, pʰɯds, *bɯds
砩	*pads
沸	*pɯds
疿	*pɯds
茀	pɯds, pʰɯd
髴	pʰɯds, pɯd, *pʰɯd
昲	*pʰɯds
靅	*pʰɯds
狒	*buds
怫	bɯds, bɯd
胇	*brɯd
艴	bɯːd, pʰɯd
弗	*pɯd
紼	*pɯd
柫	*pɯd
笰	*pɯd
拂	*pʰɯd
刜	pʰɯd, bɯd
彿	*pʰɯd
佛	*bɯd
坲	*bɯd
咈	*bɯd
炥	*bɯd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pɯds): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 弗 (OC *pɯd).

Etymology

Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *prut (“to boil”) (STEDT), whence Burmese ပြုတ် (prut, “to boil”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fèi, fú (fei⁴, fu²)

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄟˋ, ㄈㄨˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fai³
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): hùi / pùi / hut

(Teochew, Peng'im): hug⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fèi
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄟˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fèi
  - Wade–Giles: fei⁴
  - Yale: fèi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fey
  - Palladius: фэй (fɛj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /feɪ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, variant)⁺
  - 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: fai³
  - Yale: fai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fai³
  - Guangdong Romanization: fei³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐi̯³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hùi
  - Tâi-lô: huì
  - Phofsit Daibuun: huix
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hui⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hui²¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pùi
  - Tâi-lô: puì
  - Phofsit Daibuun: puix
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pui⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pui²¹/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hut
  - Tâi-lô: hut
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hud
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hut̚³²/

Note:

hùi - literary (Quanzhou);
pùi - vernacular (Quanzhou).

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: hug⁴
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: huk
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /huk̚²/

Middle Chinese: pj+jH

Rime
Character	沸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	微 (21)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	方味切
Baxter	pj+jH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʉi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/pʷɨi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/piuəi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puj^H/
Li Rong	/piuəi^H/
Wang Li	/pĭwəi^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pwe̯i^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fèi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fei³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*Nə.p[u][t]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*pɯds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	沸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fèi
Middle Chinese	‹ pjɨj^H ›
Old Chinese	/*Nə.p[u][t]-s/
English	boil (v.)
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	沸
Reading #	1/1
No.	3301
Phonetic component	弗
Rime group	隊
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*pɯds/

Definitions

沸

to boil; to bubble; to churn
to surge; to gush
to be in turmoil; to bustle
boiling; extremely hot
noisy

Compounds

人聲鼎沸 / 人声鼎沸 (rénshēngdǐngfèi)
以指撓沸 / 以指挠沸
以湯止沸 / 以汤止沸
以湯沃沸 / 以汤沃沸
共沸物 (gòngfèiwù)
四海鼎沸
天下鼎沸
扇火止沸
抽薪止沸
揚湯止沸 / 扬汤止沸 (yángtāngzhǐfèi)
救火揚沸 / 救火扬沸
民怨沸騰 / 民怨沸腾
江翻海沸 (jiāngfānhǎifèi)
沸反盈天
沸水 (fèishuǐ)
沸泉 (fèiquán)
沸沸
沸沸揚揚 / 沸沸扬扬 (fèifèiyángyáng)
沸涫
沸湯 / 沸汤
沸渭
沸濆 / 沸𣸣
沸然
沸熱 / 沸热
沸羹
沸騰 / 沸腾 (fèiténg)
沸點 / 沸点 (fèidiǎn)
沸鼎
海沸山搖 / 海沸山摇
海沸山裂
海沸江翻
海沸河翻
海沸波翻
煮沸 (zhǔfèi)
物論沸騰 / 物论沸腾
物議沸騰 / 物议沸腾
百沸湯 / 百沸汤
笙歌鼎沸
蜩沸
蜩螗沸羹
蟲鳴水沸 / 虫鸣水沸
觱沸 (bìfèi)
麋沸 (mífèi)
麋沸蟻動 / 麋沸蚁动
麋沸蟻聚 / 麋沸蚁聚
麻沸
麻沸散
鼎沸 (dǐngfèi)
鼎沸不絕 / 鼎沸不绝

References

“沸”, 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

Shinjitai (extended)	⿰氵厶
Print standard	沸

Kanji

沸

(Jōyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form ⿰氵厶)

seethe
boil

Readings

Go-on: ひ (hi)
Kan-on: ひ (hi)
Kan’yō-on: ふつ (futsu, Jōyō)
Kun: わく (waku, 沸く, Jōyō)、わかす (wakasu, 沸かす, Jōyō)

Derived terms

沸(わ)かす (wakasu)

Korean

Hanja

沸 • (bi, bul) (hangeul 비, 불, revised bi, bul, McCune–Reischauer pi, pul, Yale pi, pul)

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Vietnamese

Han character

沸: Hán Nôm readings: phí, phất

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