保
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Han character
保 (radical 9, 人+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 人口木 (ORD), four-corner 26294, composition ⿰亻呆)
References
- KangXi: page 105, character 17
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 702
- Dae Jaweon: page 222, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 160, character 4
- Unihan data for U+4FDD
Chinese
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Glyph origin
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References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
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Characters in the same phonetic series (保) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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Old Chinese | |
襃 | *puː, *puː |
保 | *puːʔ |
堡 | *puːʔ |
褓 | *puːʔ |
堢 | *puːʔ |
緥 | *puːʔ |
葆 | *puːʔ |
賲 | *puːʔ |
宲 | *puːʔ |
椺 | *ɦmluːʔ, *ɢʷeːɡs, *ɢeːɡ |
In the oracle script, this character was an ideogrammic compound (會意) : 人 (“person”) + 子 (“child”) – a person carrying a child on the back; to carry (a child) > to protect.
In early bronze inscriptions, 爪 (“hand”) was added to the person to emphasize that the person was carrying the child. This was later simplified into one or two strokes. The current form has two.
Pronunciation
Definitions
保
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Japanese
Readings
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
保 • (bo) (hangeul 보, revised bo, McCune–Reischauer po)
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Vietnamese
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