鈈

See also: 钚

鈈	U+9208, 鈈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9208

← 鈇
[U+9207]

CJK Unified Ideographs

鈉 →
[U+9209]

Translingual

Han character

鈈 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 金一火 (CMF), composition ⿰釒不)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1298, character 8
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40214
Dae Jaweon: page 1801, character 2
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4174, character 12
Unihan data for U+9208

Chinese

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

Etymology 1

trad.		鈈
simp.		钚

Chemical element
Pu
Previous: *鎿／镎 (ná), 錼 (nài) (Np)*
Next: *鎇／镅 (méi), 鋂／𰾄 (méi) (Am)*

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bù (bu⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷peq

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bù
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bù
  - Wade–Giles: pu⁴
  - Yale: bù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buh
  - Palladius: бу (bu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: bat¹
  - Yale: bāt
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: bed¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put
  - Tâi-lô: put
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pud
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /put̚³²/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁷peq
  - MiniDict: peh^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴peq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pəʔ⁵⁵/

Definitions

鈈

(chemistry, Mainland China) plutonium
Synonym: 鈽 / 钸 (bù) (Taiwan)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 鈈 – see 鈹 (“beryllium; long stone needle used for acupuncture; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 鈹).

Tày

Noun

鈈 (bất)

Nôm form of bất (“fishhook”).
枚𣦍立竹𣦍如鈈
Mài ngày rổp trúc ngày như bất
An Honest Mai meets an honest Trúc like fishhooks

References

Dương Nhật Thanh, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[1] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]