寶

寶 (radical 40, 宀+17, 20 strokes, cangjie input 十一山金 (JMUC), four-corner 3080₆, composition ⿱𡩧貝)

• 𪴥, 𬎞, 軉 , 𨰰, 𫘄, 䴐, 𩇉, 𦈆

• 宝 (Japanese shinjitai and simplified Chinese)

• KangXi: page 293, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7376
• Dae Jaweon: page 579, character 32
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 958, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5BF6

Oracle bone script: Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 宀 (“house”) + 𤣩 (“jade”) + 貝 (“cowry”) – treasures in a house.

The phonetic component 缶 (OC *puʔ) was added to the character in bronze inscriptions.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pəw (“price”); cognate with Burmese အဖိုး (a.hpui:, “price”) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT). Peiros and Starostin (1996) also compares it to Tibetan སྤུས (spus, “goods”). Sagart (1999) relates it to 富 (OC *pɯɡs, “rich”). Schuessler (2007) proposes that it could be the same word as 保 (OC *puːʔ, “to take care of; to consider something precious”).

寶

1. treasure; riches; valuables; precious thing
2. to treasure; to cherish
3. to collect (treasures)
4. treasured; cherished
5. precious; valuable
6. (historical) jade token
7. term of respect, for things related to the emperor, to Buddhism, to Taoism, or to other people
8. (term of endearment) darling; baby; dear
9. (gambling) a kind of gambling device

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 宝)

Kyūjitai form of 宝

1. precious objects
2. worldly goods
3. valuable possessions

• Go-on: ほう (hō)
• Kan-on: ほう (hō)
• Kan’yō-on: ほ (ho)
• Kun: たから (takara, 寶)

寶 • (bo) (hangeul 보, revised bo, McCune–Reischauer po)

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寶 (bảo, báu, bửu)

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