菠

菠	U+83E0, 菠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-83E0

← 菟
[U+83DF]

CJK Unified Ideographs

菡 →
[U+83E1]

Translingual

Han character

菠 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 12 strokes in traditional Chinese, 11 strokes in simplified Chinese and Japanese, cangjie input 廿水木水 (TEDE), four-corner 4414₇, composition ⿱艹波)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1038, character 19
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31190
Dae Jaweon: page 1496, character 20
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3240, character 5
Unihan data for U+83E0

Chinese

trad.		菠
simp. ^#		菠

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
陂	pral, prals
詖	pral, prals
彼	*pralʔ
柀	*pralʔ
佊	pralʔ, prals
貱	*prals
跛	prals, paːlʔ
披	pʰral, pʰralʔ
鈹	*pʰral
帔	pʰral, pʰrals
鮍	*pʰral
耚	*pʰral
狓	*pʰral
翍	*pʰral
旇	pʰral, brals
秛	pʰral, pʰrals
紴	pʰralʔ, paːl
皮	*bral
疲	*bral
被	bralʔ, brals
髲	*brals
鞁	*brals
骳	*mbralʔ
波	*paːl
碆	paːl, baːl
菠	*paːl
簸	paːlʔ, paːls
駊	paːlʔ, pʰaːlʔ
頗	pʰaːl, pʰaːlʔ, *pʰaːls
坡	*pʰaːl
玻	*pʰaːl
破	*pʰaːls
婆	*baːl
蔢	*baːl

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bō (bo¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄛ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bo¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): po͘ / po / pe / poe

(Teochew, Peng'im): bo¹ / buê¹
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹pu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bō
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄛ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bo
  - Wade–Giles: po¹
  - Yale: bwō
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bo
  - Palladius: бо (bo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: bo¹
  - Yale: bō
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bo¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: bo¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɔː⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: po͘
  - Tâi-lô: poo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pof
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔ³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: po
  - Tâi-lô: po
  - Phofsit Daibuun: poy
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pɤ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /po³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /po⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Taipei, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pe
  - Tâi-lô: pe
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pef
  - IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /pe⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: poe
  - Tâi-lô: pue
  - Phofsit Daibuun: poef
  - IPA (Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou): /pue⁴⁴/

Note:

po͘ - literary (Quanzhou);
po - literary (Xiamen, Taiwan, Zhangzhou);
po - vernacular (Quanzhou);
pe/poe - vernacular.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: bo¹ / buê¹
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: po / pue
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /po³³/, /pue³³/

Note: buê1 - used in 菠薐.

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹pu
  - MiniDict: pu^平
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹pu
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pu⁵³/

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*paːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	菠
Reading #	1/1
No.	9722
Phonetic component	皮
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	波
Old Chinese	/*paːl/

Definitions

菠

Used in compounds.

Compounds

菠菜 (bōcài)
菠薐 (bōléng)
菠薐菜 (bōléngcài)
菠蘿 / 菠萝 (bōluó)
菠蘿蜜 / 菠萝蜜 (bōluómì)

Japanese

Kanji

菠

(Hyōgai kanji)

spinach

Readings

Go-on: は (ha)
Kan-on: は (ha)
Kan’yō-on: ほ (ho)
Kun: ほうれんそう (hōrensō)

Korean

Hanja

菠 • (pa) (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune–Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

菠: Hán Nôm readings: ba

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