渤

渤	U+6E24, 渤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6E24

← 渣
[U+6E23]

CJK Unified Ideographs

渥 →
[U+6E25]

Translingual

Han character

渤 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水十木尸 (EJDS), four-corner 3412₇, composition ⿰氵勃)

References

KangXi: page 634, character 5

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17769

Dae Jaweon: page 1041, character 2

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1670, character 7

Unihan data for U+6E24

Chinese

simp. and trad.		渤
2nd round simp.		孛
alternative forms		㴾勃

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
誖	pɯːds, bɯːds, *bɯːd
悖	bɯːds, bɯːd
孛	bɯːds, bɯːd
哱	*pʰɯːd
馞	pʰɯːd, bɯːd
勃	*bɯːd
餑	*bɯːd
郣	*bɯːd
浡	*bɯːd
桲	*bɯːd
挬	*bɯːd
脖	*bɯːd
鵓	*bɯːd
渤	*bɯːd
綍	*pɯd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *bɯːd) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 勃 (OC *bɯːd)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bó (bo²)
(Zhuyin): ㄅㄛˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): but⁶
Min Nan (POJ): pu̍t

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bó
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄛˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bó
  - Wade–Giles: po²
  - Yale: bwó
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bor
  - Palladius: бо (bo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pwɔ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: but⁶
  - Yale: buht
  - Cantonese Pinyin: but⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: bud⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /puːt̚²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pu̍t
  - Tâi-lô: pu̍t
  - Phofsit Daibuun: put
  - IPA (Xiamen): /put̚⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚¹²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /put̚⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚⁴/

Middle Chinese: /buət̚/

Rime
Character	渤
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	魂 (56)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蒲没切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/buət̚/
Pan Wuyun	/buot̚/
Shao Rongfen	/buət̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bwət̚/
Li Rong	/buət̚/
Wang Li	/buət̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱuət̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bó
Expected Cantonese Reflex	but⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*bɯːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	渤
Reading #	1/1
No.	986
Phonetic component	孛
Rime group	物
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	勃
Old Chinese	/*bɯːd/

Definitions

渤

(～海) Bohai Sea
(literary) surging; swelling

Compounds

渤海 (Bó Hǎi)
渤潏
渤澥
渤澥桑田

渤翁
溟渤
滂渤
滃渤

渤海國／渤海国 (Bóhǎiguó)
渤海海峽／渤海海峡 (Bóhǎi Hǎixiá)
渤海鎖鑰／渤海锁钥

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02261

Japanese

Kanji

渤

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: ぼち (bochi)^{←ぼち (boti, historical)}
Kan-on: ほつ (hotsu)^{←ほつ (fotu, historical)}
Kan’yō-on: ぼつ (botsu)

Compounds

渤(ぼっ)海(かい) (Bokkai)
滃(おう)渤(ぼつ) (ōbotsu)
漰(ほう)渤(ぼつ) (hōbotsu)
溟(めい)渤(ぼつ) (meibotsu)

Korean

Hanja

渤 • (bal) (hangeul 발, revised bal, McCune–Reischauer pal, Yale pal)

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Vietnamese

Han character

渤: Hán Nôm readings: bọt, bột

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