布
See also: 佈
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Translingual
Han character
布 (radical 50, 巾+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 大中月 (KLB), four-corner 40227, composition ⿸𠂇巾)
References
- KangXi: page 328, character 6
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8778
- Dae Jaweon: page 633, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 728, character 5
- Unihan data for U+5E03
Chinese
trad. | 布/佈 | |
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simp. | 布 | |
佈 – “to spread; to proclaim; to arrange; etc.” |
Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 布 | |||
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Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Bronze inscriptions | Chu Slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Characters in the same phonetic series (父) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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Old Chinese | |
抪 | *paː, *paːs |
布 | *paːs |
佈 | *paːs |
怖 | *pʰaːs |
斧 | *paʔ |
父 | *paʔ, *baʔ |
蚥 | *paʔ, *baʔ |
滏 | *baʔ |
釜 | *baʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *paːs) : phonetic 父 (OC *paʔ, *baʔ) + semantic 巾.
Etymology
- "to spread out" (tr.)
- Likely from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Schuessler (2007) considers this sense to be cognate with:
- 博 (OC pâk), 博 (OC phâʔ), 敷 (OC pha), & 甫 (OC paʔ); as well as
- outside Sinitic, with Proto-Kuki-Chin *phaʔ, whence Mizo phah (“spread (as cloth, etc), to place flat on the ground”), Lai phaʔ (“spread out cloth”), Tedim Chin phaʔ³ (“spread a flat object”), Thado Chin phàa, phàt (“spread out cloth”)
- "cloth"
- "Cloth" is often thought to be the same etymon as "to spread (out)" (tr.). Alternatively, Schuessler thinks this sense's Austroasiatic origin more likely. Indeed, a late Han (漢) dynasty's word for "cotton", 幏布 *ka(H)-puoH (Shuowen, Hou Hanshu), was borrowed from the Austroasiatic-speaking Man-Yi peoples, and a Sanskrit loan (c. 430 CE) into Northwestern dialect is 古貝 *koX-peiH. Compare Proto-Austroasiatic *k-rn-pas and Proto-Mon-Khmer *kpaas (“cotton”), whence Khmer ក្របាស (krɑbaah), Bahnar kơpaih, Proto-Vietic *k-paːs (→ Vietnamese vải & Muong pái).
- Additionally, Schuessler suggests that the Austroasiatic word was the source of Sanskrit कर्पास (karpāsa) & Ancient Greek κάρπασος (kárpasos). Still, earlier Johnson & Decker (1980) stated that "the problem of etymological origin of karpāsa has not been resolved".
Pronunciation
Definitions
布
Compounds
Derived terms from 布
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Japanese
Korean
Hanja
布 • (po) (hangeul 포)
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Vietnamese
Han character
布: Hán Việt readings: bố (
布: Nôm readings: bố[1][2], vú[1][3], bó[1], bồ[1], vó[1], múa[2], búa[3], vố[3], bô[4]
Compounds
- 頒布 (ban bố, “to promulgate”)
References
- Nguyễn (2014).
- Nguyễn et al. (2009).
- Trần (2004).
- Hồ (1976).
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