仆

See also: 僕

仆	U+4EC6, 仆 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EC6

← 仅
[U+4EC5]

CJK Unified Ideographs

仇 →
[U+4EC7]

Translingual

Japanese	仆/僕
Simplified	仆/仆
Traditional	仆/僕

Han character

仆 (radical 9, 人+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 人卜 (OY), four-corner 2320₀, composition ⿰亻卜)

References

KangXi: page 91, character 14

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 354

Dae Jaweon: page 193, character 6

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 108, character 3

Unihan data for U+4EC6

Chinese

simp. and trad.		仆
variant forms		扑

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 仆

**Small seal script**
s05870

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 (卜) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
仆	pʰoːɡs, pʰus, pʰoɡs, bɯːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
赴	*pʰoɡs
訃	*pʰoɡs
朴	*pʰroːɡ
圤	*pʰroːɡ
卜	*poːɡ
鳪	*poːɡ
扑	*pʰoːɡ
攴	pʰoːɡ, pʰroːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pʰoːɡs, *pʰus, *pʰoɡs, *bɯːɡ, *pʰoːɡ) : semantic 人 + phonetic 卜 (OC *poːɡ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): pū, fù (pu¹, fu⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄆㄨ, ㄈㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fu⁶, puk¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phuk
Min Nan (POJ): phak
Wu (Wiktionary): pheu (T2)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: pū
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄨ
  - Wade–Giles: p'u¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pu
  - IPA ^(key): /pʰu⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, variant)⁺
  - Pinyin: fù
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ
  - Wade–Giles: fu⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuh
  - IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: fu⁶, puk¹
  - Yale: fuh, pūk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fu⁶, puk⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: fu⁶, pug¹
  - IPA ^(key): /fuː²²/, /pʰʊk̚⁵/

Note:

fu6 - literary;
puk1 - colloquial.

Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phuk
  - Hakka Romanization System: pug`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: pug⁵
  - IPA: /pʰuk̚²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phak
  - Tâi-lô: phak
  - Phofsit Daibuun: phag
  - IPA (Xiamen): /pʰak̚³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰak̚⁵/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰak̚³²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pʰak̚³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰak̚³²/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: pheu (T2)
  - IPA ^(key): /pʰɜ³⁴/

Middle Chinese: /pʰɨo^H/, /pʰɨu^H/, /pʰəu^H/, /bək̚/▼

Rime
Character	仆	仆	仆	仆
Reading #	1/4	2/4	3/4	4/4
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)	滂 (2)	滂 (2)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)	尤 (136)	侯 (137)	德 (131)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III	I	I
Fanqie	芳遇切	敷救切	匹候切	蒲北切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨo^H/	/pʰɨu^H/	/pʰəu^H/	/bək̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰio^H/	/pʰiu^H/	/pʰəu^H/	/bək̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰio^H/	/pʰiəu^H/	/pʰəu^H/	/bək̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰuə̆^H/	/pʰuw^H/	/pʰəw^H/	/bək̚/
Li Rong	/pʰio^H/	/pʰiu^H/	/pʰu^H/	/bək̚/
Wang Li	/pʰĭu^H/	/pʰĭəu^H/	/pʰəu^H/	/bək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰi̯u^H/	/pʰi̯ə̯u^H/	/pʰə̯u^H/	/bʱək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fù	fòu	pòu	bó

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰ(r)ok-s/, /*pʰok-s/, /*pʰˤ(r)ok-s/
(Zhengzhang): /*pʰoːɡs/, /*pʰus/, /*pʰoɡs/, /*bɯːɡ/, /*pʰoːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	仆	仆	仆
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pū	pū	pū
Middle Chinese	‹ phju^H ›	‹ phjuw^H ›	‹ phuw^H ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰ(r)ok-s/	/*pʰok-s/	/*pʰˁ(r)ok-s/
English	fall prostrate	fall prostrate	fall prostrate
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	仆	仆	仆	仆	仆
Reading #	1/5	2/5	3/5	4/5	5/5
No.	990	991	994	997	1002
Phonetic component	卜	卜	卜	卜	卜
Rime group	候	幽	竇	職	屋
Rime subdivision	0	1	0	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	仆	副	赴	菔	扑
Old Chinese	/*pʰoːɡs/	/*pʰus/	/*pʰoɡs/	/*bɯːɡ/	/*pʰoːɡ/

Definitions

仆

to fall forward
to lie prostrate; prone

Compounds

仆地 (pūde)
仆然
仆街
偃仆

僵仆
前仆後繼／前仆后继
前仆後起／前仆后起
屢仆屢起／屡仆屡起

攧攧仆仆
此仆彼起
顛仆／颠仆

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 仆 – see 僕 (“servant; slave; charioteer; etc.”). (This character, 仆, is the simplified form of 僕.)
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji

仆

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: ふ (fu); ぼく (boku)
Kan-on: ふ (fu); ほく (hoku)
Kun: たおれる (taoreru, 仆れる)

Korean

Hanja

仆 • (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune–Reischauer pu, Yale pwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

仆 (bộc, phó)

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