泡

泡 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水心口山 (EPRU), four-corner 3711₂, composition ⿰氵包)

• 萢, 𬰀

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 617, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17307
• Dae Jaweon: page 1012, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1591, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6CE1

泡

1. puffy, spongy, soft

   泡桐  ―  pāotóng  ―  Paulownia sp., a tree with very soft wood

2. puffy, spongy or soft object

   豆腐泡  ―  dòufupāo  ―  spongy tofu

3. bladder
4. small lake
5. Classifier for excreta.
6. Rubus sp.

   空心泡  ―  kōngxīnpāo  ―  Rubus rosifolius

7. Name of a river.

泡

1. bubble
2. bubblelike or bulbous object
3. blister
4. (Cantonese) courage; guts
5. (Taiwanese Hokkien) saliva; spit
6. (Wuhan Mandarin, Liannan Hakka) swim bladder

泡

1. to soak; to sit in water (or liquid)
2. to pour boiling water; to infuse; to brew (such as tea, instant soup, etc.)

   泡茶  ―  pàochá  ―  to make (infuse) tea

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   • 2000, 梁左 and 梁欢, 闲人马大姐, episode 100, 蔡明 (actor):

     明天，我就去解决这个垃圾淸运问题。我先去找城建，然后找环卫，再找市政，还找街道。解决不了问题我就跟他们泡。 [MSC, simp.]
     明天，我就去解決這個垃圾淸運問題。我先去找城建，然後找環衛，再找市政，還找街道。解決不了問題我就跟他們泡。 [MSC, trad.]

     Míngtiān, wǒ jiù qù jiějué zhèi ge lājī qīngyùn wèntí. Wǒ xiān qù zhǎo chéngjiàn, ránhòu zhǎo huánwèi, zài zhǎo shìzhèng, hái zhǎo jiēdào. Jiějué bù liǎo wèntí wǒ jiù gēn tāmen pào. [Pinyin]

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4. (informal) to pick up; to meet and seduce for romantic purposes

   泡妞  ―  pàoniū  ―  to pick up girls

• (to soak):

• (rfdef):
  • 磨 (mó), 磨咕 / 蘑菇 (mógu), 耗 (hào)

泡

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) abundant

泡

1. (Southern Min) light and crisp

• “泡”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “泡（～水）”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 177.

(Jōyō kanji)

1. bubbles

• Go-on: ひょう (hyō)^{←へう (feu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ほう (hō, Jōyō)^{←はう (fau, historical)}
• Kun: あぶく (abuku, 泡)、あわ (awa, 泡, Jōyō)、うたかた (utakata, 泡)

• 泡盛(あわもり) (awamori)
• 発泡酒(はっぽうしゅ) (happōshu)

From Old Japanese. Appears in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.^[2] From Proto-Japonic *awa.

• (Tokyo) あわ [àwáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[3]
• IPA^(key): [a̠β̞a̠]

泡(あわ) • (awa) 

1. bubble
2. foam, head on carbonated beverages such as beer

From Middle Chinese 泡 (MC phaew). Recorded as Middle Korean 포 (phwo) (Yale: pwo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Wikisource

泡 (eumhun 거품 포 (geopum po))

1. hanja form^? of 포 (“bubbles”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]

(Jōyō kanji)

• Kun: あー (ā, 泡)

Cognate with Japanese 泡 (awa).

• IPA^(key): /ʔaː/

泡(あー) (ā) 

1. bubbles
2. froth, foam

• “あー【泡・沫】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.

泡: Hán Nôm readings: bàu, bảo, bào, bầu, phao

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