佈

See also: 布

佈	U+4F48, 佈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F48

← 佇
[U+4F47]

CJK Unified Ideographs

佉 →
[U+4F49]

Translingual

Han character

佈 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人大中月 (OKLB), four-corner 2422₇, composition ⿰亻布)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 98, character 1
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 497
Dae Jaweon: page 206, character 12
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 131, character 3
Unihan data for U+4F48

Chinese

trad.		佈/布
simp.		布

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 佈
Transcribed ancient scripts L35990 L35991
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (父) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	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 / 形声, OC *paːs): semantic 亻 + phonetic 布 (OC *paːs).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): bù (bu⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ

(Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): bu⁴
Cantonese (Jyutping): bou³
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): bou⁴ / boo⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pò͘

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/
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: bu⁴
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: bu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu²¹³/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: bou³
  - Yale: bou
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bou³
  - Guangdong Romanization: bou³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pou̯³³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian, Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: bou⁴
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: bo̍
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɔu⁴²/
- (Jiangkou, Youyang, Fengting)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: bou⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pou⁴²/
- (Nanri)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: boo⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɔ⁴²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pò͘
  - Tâi-lô: pòo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pox
  - IPA (Xiamen): /pɔ²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɔ²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pɔ¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pɔ²¹/

Middle Chinese: puH

Rime
Character	佈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	愽故切
Baxter	puH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/puo^H/
Pan Wuyun	/puo^H/
Shao Rongfen	/po^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pɔ^H/
Li Rong	/po^H/
Wang Li	/pu^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/puo^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bou³

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*paːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	佈
Reading #	1/1
No.	3496
Phonetic component	父
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*paːs/

Definitions

佈

to announce; to proclaim
宣佈／宣布 ― xuānbù ― to declare, to proclaim, to announce
to spread
遍佈／遍布 ― biànbù ― to be found everywhere, to be spread all over
to arrange
佈兵／布兵 ― bùbīng ― to deploy troops

Compounds

佈劃 / 布划
佈擺 / 布摆
佈散 / 布散
佈施 / 布施 (bùshī)
佈景 / 布景 (bùjǐng)
佈菜 / 布菜
佈讓 / 布让
佈陣安營 / 布阵安营
擺佈 / 摆布 (bǎibù)
歪擺佈 / 歪摆布
沒做擺佈 / 没做摆布
沒擺佈處 / 没摆布处

References

“佈”, 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–
李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “布”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 134.

Japanese

Kanji

佈

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): ほ (ho)、ふ (fu)
Kun: あまねし (amaneshi)

Korean

Hanja

佈 (eum 포 (po))

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Vietnamese

Han character

佈: Hán Việt readings: bố (博(bác)故(cố)切(thiết))^[1]^[2]
佈: Nôm readings: bố^[1], bô^[2]

father, daddy, dad

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Nguyễn et al. (2009).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Trần (2004).

Zhuang

Noun

佈

Sawndip form of boh

Classifier

佈

Sawndip form of boux

[tdcntd-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Nguyễn et al. (2009).

[gdhn-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Trần (2004).

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