頗
See also: 颇
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Translingual
Han character
頗 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+5, 14 strokes, cangjie input 木水一月金 (DEMBC), four-corner 41286, composition ⿰皮頁)
Derived characters
Related characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1402, character 18
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43415
- Dae Jaweon: page 1919, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4366, character 10
- Unihan data for U+9817
Chinese
| trad. | 頗 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 颇 | |
| alternative forms | 𩑼 | |
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 |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pʰaːl, *pʰaːlʔ, *pʰaːls): phonetic 皮 (OC *bral) + semantic 頁.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): po2 / po1
- Eastern Min (BUC): puō / pō̤
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): por3
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 1phu
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: pō
- Zhuyin: ㄆㄛ
- Tongyong Pinyin: po
- Wade–Giles: pʻo1
- Yale: pwō
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: po
- Palladius: по (po)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: pǒ
- Zhuyin: ㄆㄛˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: pǒ
- Wade–Giles: pʻo3
- Yale: pwǒ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: poo
- Palladius: по (po)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰu̯ɔ²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: po2 / po1
- Yale: pó / pō
- Cantonese Pinyin: po2 / po1
- Guangdong Romanization: po2 / po1
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰɔː³⁵/, /pʰɔː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Eastern Min
Note:
- puō - vernacular (“about, almost”);
- pō̤ - literary.
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: por3
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: pô̤
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰɒ⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: por3
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰɒ³³²/
- (Putian)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pho
- Tâi-lô: pho
- Phofsit Daibuun: phoy
- IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰo⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰo³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phó͘
- Tâi-lô: phóo
- Phofsit Daibuun: phor
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰɔ⁴¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /pʰɔ⁵³/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰɔ⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phó
- Tâi-lô: phó
- Phofsit Daibuun: phoir
- IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰo⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰɤ⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phò
- Tâi-lô: phò
- Phofsit Daibuun: phoix
- IPA (Taipei): /pʰo¹¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰɤ²¹/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: puan2 / po2
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phuáⁿ / phó
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰũã⁵²/, /pʰo⁵²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
- Wu
- Middle Chinese: pha, phaX, phaH
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰˤa[j]/
- (Zhengzhang): /*pʰaːl/, /*pʰaːlʔ/, /*pʰaːls/
Definitions
頗
- (literary) leaning to one side; oblique; slanting
- (literary or Hong Kong) very; rather; quite; considerably
- (Eastern Min) about; almost
- a surname, Po
Synonyms
- (very):
- 不要太 (bùyàotài) (slang)
- 十分 (shífēn)
- 危險 / 危险 (Wu)
- 壞 / 坏 (huài)
- 孔 (kǒng) (literary, or in compounds)
- 很 (hěn)
- 極其 / 极其 (jíqí)
- 極度 / 极度 (jídù)
- 極為 / 极为 (jíwéi)
- 極端 / 极端 (jíduān)
- 滾 / 滚 (gǔn) (literary, or in compounds)
- 異常 / 异常 (yìcháng)
- 老大 (lǎodà) (colloquial, usually in the negative)
- 良
- 超 (chāo)
- 非常 (fēicháng)
- 頗為 / 颇为 (pōwéi) (literary)
Compounds
References
- Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04548
- “頗”, 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–
- (Cantonese) 粵音資料集叢
- 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “颇”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 178.
Japanese
Kanji
頗
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
頗 • (pa) (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune–Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)
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Vietnamese
Han character
頗: Hán Việt readings: pha[1][2], phả
頗: Nôm readings: phở[2], pha[2], phả[1], và[1][2]