葩

葩 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹日山 (THAU), four-corner 4461₇, composition ⿱艹皅)

• 𡀥

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1045, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31441
• Dae Jaweon: page 1507, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3251, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8469

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *baːr (“bloom, flower”); compare Burmese ပန်း (pan:) or Zaiwa pan²¹, as well as 疤 (OC *praː, “scar, cicatrix”). Probably the same etymon as 瓣 (OC *breːns, “petal”) (Schusessler, 2007).

葩

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

   奇葩  ―  qípā  ―  magnificent flower

2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) beautiful
3. (Southern Min) Classifier for lamps.

   一葩電火／一葩电火 [Hokkien]  ―  chi̍t pha tiān-hóe [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  a lamp

4. (Southern Min) Classifier for things that are strung together.

• “葩”, 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–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03532
• “葩”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: へ (he)
• Kan-on: は (ha)
• Kun: はな (hana, 葩)

葩 (eum 파 (pa))

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葩: Hán Nôm readings: ba

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