珀

珀	U+73C0, 珀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-73C0

← 玿
[U+73BF]

CJK Unified Ideographs

珁 →
[U+73C1]

Translingual

Han character

珀 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一土竹日 (MGHA), four-corner 1610₀, composition ⿰𤣩白)

amber

Derived characters

𮅩, 𰋨, 𫺠, 𣄋, 𤧥, 𬍾, 碧, 𱻠

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 729, character 10
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20904
Dae Jaweon: page 1141, character 3
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1107, character 6
Unihan data for U+73C0

Chinese

simp. and trad.		珀

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
怕	pʰraːɡs, pʰraːɡ
帕	pʰraːɡs, mbraːd
粕	pʰaːɡ, pʰraːɡ
胉	*pʰaːɡ
泊	*baːɡ
箔	*baːɡ
魄	tʰaːɡ, pʰraːɡ
皕	*prɯɡ
伯	*praːɡ
百	*praːɡ
迫	*praːɡ
敀	praːɡ, pʰraːɡ
柏	*praːɡ
湐	*praːɡ
拍	*pʰraːɡ
珀	*pʰraːɡ
皛	pʰraːɡ, ɡeːwʔ
洦	mpʰraːɡ, mbraːɡ
白	*braːɡ
帛	*braːɡ
舶	*braːɡ
鮊	*braːɡ
陌	*mbraːɡ
帞	*mbraːɡ
袹	*mbraːɡ
蛨	*mbraːɡ
貊	*mbraːɡ
佰	*mbraːɡ
銆	*mbraːɡ
碧	praɡ, preɡ
咟	*ɦmreːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pʰraːɡ): semantic 玉 (“jade”) + phonetic 白 (OC *braːɡ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): pò (po⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄆㄛˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): paak³
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): peh⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: pò
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄛˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: pò
  - Wade–Giles: pʻo⁴
  - Yale: pwò
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: poh
  - Palladius: по (po)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: paak³
  - Yale: paak
  - Cantonese Pinyin: paak⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: pag³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰaːk̚³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: peh⁶
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: peh
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɛʔ²¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: peh⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɛʔ²/

Middle Chinese: phaek

Rime
Character	珀
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	陌 (113)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	普伯切
Baxter	phaek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰˠæk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰᵚak̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰak̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰaɨjk̚/
Li Rong	/pʰɐk̚/
Wang Li	/pʰɐk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pʰɐk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	po
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pak¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*pʰraːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	珀
Reading #	1/1
No.	200
Phonetic component	白
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	拍
Old Chinese	/*pʰraːɡ/

Definitions

珀

only used in 琥珀 (hǔpò, “amber”)

Compounds

琥珀 (hǔpò)
琥珀色 (hǔpòsè)
琥珀酸 (hǔpòsuān)
蠟珀 / 蜡珀
黳珀

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “珀”, 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

珀

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

oak

Readings

Go-on: ひゃく (hyaku)
Kan-on: はく (haku)

Compounds

琥(こ)珀(はく) (kohaku)
琥(こ)珀(はく)色(いろ) (kohakuiro)

Korean

Hanja

珀 • (bak) (hangeul 박, revised bak, McCune–Reischauer pak, Yale pak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

珀: Hán Nôm readings: phách

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