芣

芣	U+82A3, 芣 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82A3

← 芢
[U+82A2]

CJK Unified Ideographs

芤 →
[U+82A4]

Translingual

Han character

芣 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿一火 (TMF), four-corner 4490₁, composition ⿱艹不)

Derived characters

𠶙, 𢯒, 𣔟, 𥟼

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1019, character 26
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30710
Dae Jaweon: page 1477, character 12
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3179, character 5
Unihan data for U+82A3

Chinese

trad.		芣
simp. ^#		芣

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
肧	pʰlɯː, pʰɯ, *pʰlɯː
俖	*pʰɯːʔ
娝	*prɯʔ
痞	prɯʔ, brɯʔ, *pɯʔ
丕	*pʰrɯ
伾	*pʰrɯ
秠	pʰrɯ, pʰrɯʔ, pʰɯ, pʰɯʔ
駓	*pʰrɯ
怌	*pʰrɯ
豾	*pʰrɯ
髬	*pʰrɯ
魾	pʰrɯ, brɯ
鉟	pʰrɯ, brɯ
嚭	*pʰrɯʔ
邳	*brɯ
岯	*brɯ
否	brɯʔ, pɯʔ
抔	bɯ, pʰlɯː
不	pɯ, pɯʔ, *pɯ'
紑	pɯ, pʰɯ, *pʰɯʔ
鴀	pɯ, pɯʔ
衃	pʰɯ, pʰlɯː
罘	*bɯ
芣	*bɯ
杯	*plɯː
盃	*plɯː
桮	*pɯː
坯	*pʰɯː
胚	*pʰɯː

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *bɯ): semantic 艸 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 不 (OC *pɯ, *pɯʔ, *pɯ').

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fú, fóu

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ, ㄈㄡˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fau⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fú
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fú
  - Wade–Giles: fu²
  - Yale: fú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
  - Palladius: фу (fu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fóu
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄡˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fóu
  - Wade–Giles: fou²
  - Yale: fóu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: four
  - Palladius: фоу (fou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /foʊ̯³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: fau⁴
  - Yale: fàuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fau⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: feo⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐu̯²¹/

Middle Chinese: bjuw

Rime
Character	芣
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	縛謀切
Baxter	bjuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/biu/
Shao Rongfen	/biəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buw/
Li Rong	/biu/
Wang Li	/bĭəu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fóu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fau⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*bɯ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	芣
Reading #	1/1
No.	1039
Phonetic component	不
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	浮
Old Chinese	/*bɯ/

Definitions

芣

only used in 芣苢 and 芣苡 (fúyǐ)

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fǒu, fú, fóu (fou³, fu², fou²)

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄡˇ, ㄈㄨˊ, ㄈㄡˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fǒu
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄡˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fǒu
  - Wade–Giles: fou³
  - Yale: fǒu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: foou
  - Palladius: фоу (fou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /foʊ̯²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fú
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fú
  - Wade–Giles: fu²
  - Yale: fú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
  - Palladius: фу (fu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fóu
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄡˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fóu
  - Wade–Giles: fou²
  - Yale: fóu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: four
  - Palladius: фоу (fou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /foʊ̯³⁵/

Definitions

芣

only used in 芘芣 (pífú)

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03797
“芣”, 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

Kanji

芣

(Hyōgai kanji)

medicinal plantago

Readings

Go-on: ふ (fu)
Kan-on: ふう (fū)
Kan’yō-on: ぶ (bu)
Kun: さかん (sakan, 芣)

Korean

Hanja

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

medicinal plantain

Vietnamese

Han character

芣: Hán Việt readings: phù
芣: Hán Nôm readings: búp, bút, bụp, phù

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References

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