胞

胞 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月心口山 (BPRU), four-corner 7721₂, composition ⿰月包)

• 𠷤, 褜

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 979, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29396
• Dae Jaweon: page 1430, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2062, character 7
• Unihan data for U+80DE

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pruː, *pʰruː) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): semantic 月 (“flesh”) + phonetic 包 (OC *pruː, “a shape representing a pregnant figure”). It conveys the meaning of the membrane that encloses the fetus.^[1]

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/m-bu ~ pru (“nest; womb; placenta”). Cognate with Tibetan ཕྲུ་མ (phru ma, “womb”).

胞

1. afterbirth; placenta
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) womb
3. born of the same parents
4. (figuratively) born of the same ancestors; fellow countrypeople; compatriot
5. short for 細胞／细胞 (xìbāo, “cell”)
6. (geometry) cell (three-dimensional facet of a polytope)

胞

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 脬 (pāo, “bladder”)
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 泡 (pāo, “Classifier for excreta.”)

胞

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 庖 (páo, “cook”)

胞

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 皰 / 疱 (pào, “blister; bleb”)

• “胞”, 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–

(Jōyō kanji)

1. brethren
2. bulla
3. cells
4. cysts
5. vase(esp as one used to store alcohol)
6. vesicle

• Go-on: ひょう (hyō)^{←へう (feu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ほう (hō, Jōyō)^{←はう (fau, historical)}
• Kun: えな (ena)

• 同(どう)胞(ほう) (dōhō, “compatriot, frater”)
• 細(さい)胞(ぼう) (saibō, “cell”)

From Middle Chinese 胞 (MC phaew).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [pʰo̞]
• Phonetic hangul: [포]

Wikisource

胞 (eumhun 세포 포 (sepo po))

1. hanja form^? of 포 (“cell”)

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

胞: Hán Nôm readings: bào, nhau, rau

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