扑

扑

See also: 撲

扑 U+6251, 扑 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6251 ← 扐 [U+6250] CJK Unified Ideographs 扒 → [U+6252]

Translingual

Han character

扑 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 手卜 (QY), four-corner 4300₀, composition ⿰扌卜)

References

• KangXi: page 417, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11779
• Dae Jaweon: page 763, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1827, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6251

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Chinese

Glyph origin

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 *pʰoːɡ) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 卜 (OC *poːɡ).

Officially adopted as the simplified form of 撲 in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (《漢字簡化方案》) in 1956.

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		扑

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pū (pu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pok³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pū
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pu
    • Wade–Giles: pʻu¹
    • Yale: pū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pu
    • Palladius: пу (pu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: pok³
    • Yale: pok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: pog³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɔːk̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: /pʰuk̚/

Rime
Character	扑
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	東 (3)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	普木切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰəwk̚/
Li Rong	/pʰuk̚/
Wang Li	/pʰuk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰuk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	puk1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰoːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	扑
Reading #	1/1
No.	1000
Phonetic component	卜
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	扑
Old Chinese	/*pʰoːɡ/

Definitions

扑

1. whip

Compounds

扑作教刑 扑打 敲扑

跌扑 鞭扑

扑撻／扑挞 擊扑／击扑

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		扑
alternative forms		㩧 搏

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bok¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bok¹
    • Yale: bōk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bok⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: bog¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɔːk̚⁵/

Definitions

扑

1. (Cantonese) to hit; to strike

   用個水樽扑人個頭 [Cantonese, trad.]
   用个水樽扑人个头 [Cantonese, simp.]

   jung⁶ go³ seoi² zeon¹ bok¹ jan⁴ go³ tau⁴ [Jyutping]

   to hit someone's head with a water bottle

2. (Cantonese) to have sex

   扑嘢 [Cantonese]  ―  bok¹ je⁵ [Jyutping]  ―  to have sex

Compounds

扑咪 扑嘢 扑槌

扑扑齋／扑扑斋 扑濕／扑湿 扑頭／扑头

扑頭黨／扑头党 紅扑扑／红扑扑 (hung4 bok1 bok1) (Cantonese)

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 扑 – see 撲 (“pound, beat, strike; attack; etc.”). (This character, 扑, is the simplified and variant form of 撲.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Etymology 4

For pronunciation and definitions of 扑 – see 仆 (“to fall forward; to lie prostrate; prone”). (This character, 扑, is a variant form of 仆.)

Etymology 5

For pronunciation and definitions of 扑 – see 㩧 (“to strike; to beat; the sound of hitting something”). (This character, 扑, is a variant form of 㩧.)

Etymology 6

For pronunciation and definitions of 扑 – see 揊. (This character, 扑, is a variant form of 揊.)

References

• “扑”, 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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