叵

叵

叵 U+53F5, 叵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53F5 ← 叴 [U+53F4] CJK Unified Ideographs 叶 → [U+53F6]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

叵 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 尸口 (SR), four-corner 7171₆, composition ⿷匚口)

References

• KangXi: page 173, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3254
• Dae Jaweon: page 385, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 82, character 3
• Unihan data for U+53F5

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		叵
alternative forms		尀

Glyph origin

A mirror image of 可.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pǒ (po³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄛˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): po²
• Min Nan (POJ): phó͘ / phó

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pǒ
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄛˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pǒ
    • Wade–Giles: pʻo³
    • Yale: pwǒ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: poo
    • Palladius: по (po)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰwɔ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: po²
    • Yale: pó
    • Cantonese Pinyin: po²
    • Guangdong Romanization: po²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɔː³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phó͘
    • Tâi-lô: phóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phor
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰɔ⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phó
    • Tâi-lô: phó
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phoir
    • IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰo⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰɤ⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /pʰuɑ^X/

Rime
Character	叵
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	普火切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰuɑX/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰuɑX/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰuɑX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰwaX/
Li Rong	/pʰuɑX/
Wang Li	/pʰuɑX/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰuɑX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pǒ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	po2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pkʰaːlʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	叵
Reading #	1/1
No.	9833
Phonetic component	叵
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	叵
Old Chinese	/*pkʰaːlʔ/

Definitions

叵

1. ^† Contraction of 不可 (“cannot; to be unable to; to be impossible to”).

   居心叵測／居心叵测  ―  jūxīnpǒcè  ―  to harbor sinister intentions difficult to guess

2. ^† thereupon
3. Used in 叵羅／叵罗 (pǒluó).

Compounds

叵信 叵奈 叵耐 (pǒnài)

人心叵測／人心叵测 (rénxīnpǒcè) 叵測／叵测 (pǒcè) 叵羅／叵罗 (pǒluó)

居心叵測／居心叵测 (jūxīnpǒcè) 心懷叵測／心怀叵测 (xīnhuáipǒcè)

References

• “叵”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

叵

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. cannot, be unable to

Readings

• On (unclassified): は (ha)
• Kun: できない (dekinai); すこぶる (sukoburu); ついに (tsuini)

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Korean

Hanja

叵 (eum 파 (pa))

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Vietnamese

Han character

叵: Hán Nôm readings: phả

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