膊

膊

膊 U+818A, 膊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-818A ← 膉 [U+8189] CJK Unified Ideographs 膋 → [U+818B]

Translingual

Han character

膊 (radical 130, 肉+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 月戈月戈 (BIBI), four-corner 7324₂, composition ⿰月尃)

References

• KangXi: page 991, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29782
• Dae Jaweon: page 1443, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2101, character 3
• Unihan data for U+818A

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		膊

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (甫) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
豧	*pʰoːs, *pʰa, *pʰas
縛	*baːɡs, *baɡ
逋	*paː
餔	*paː, *baːs
晡	*paː
庯	*paː
陠	*paː, *pʰaː
鵏	*paː, *baːs
峬	*paː
誧	*paː, *pʰaː, *pʰaːʔ, *pʰaːs
秿	*paː, *pʰa, *baʔ
鯆	*paː, *pʰaː, *paʔ
補	*paːʔ
圃	*paːʔ, *paːs
鋪	*pʰaː, *pʰaːs, *pʰa
痡	*pʰaː, *pʰa
浦	*pʰaːʔ
烳	*pʰaːʔ
溥	*pʰaːʔ, *paːɡ
悑	*pʰaːs
酺	*baː
匍	*baː
蜅	*baː, *paʔ
脯	*baː, *paʔ
葡	*baː
蒱	*baː
蒲	*baː
簿	*baːʔ, *baːɡ
捕	*baːs
哺	*baːs
簠	*pa, *paʔ, *pʰas
甫	*paʔ
黼	*paʔ
莆	*paʔ
俌	*paʔ, *pʰaʔ
郙	*paʔ, *pʰa
傅	*paɡs
搏	*paɡs, *paːɡ, *pʰaːɡ
麱	*pʰa
尃	*pʰa
榑	*ba
輔	*baʔ
鬴	*baʔ
賻	*baɡs
博	*paːɡ
髆	*paːɡ
鎛	*paːɡ
猼	*paːɡ
餺	*paːɡ
簙	*paːɡ
鑮	*paːɡ, *baːɡ
欂	*paːɡ, *baɡ, *breːɡ
蒪	*pʰaːɡ
膊	*pʰaːɡ
薄	*baːɡ
礡	*baːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pʰaːɡ) : semantic 肉 (“body”) + phonetic 尃 (OC *pʰa).

Etymology

Probably cognate with 膀 (OC *baːŋ) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bó (bo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bok³
• Min Nan (POJ): phok / pok

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: bó
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄛˊ
    • Wade–Giles: po²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bor
    • IPA ^(key): /pu̯ɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bok³
    • Yale: bok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: bog³
    • IPA ^(key): /pɔːk̚³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phok
    • Tâi-lô: phok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phog
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pʰɔk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pok
    • Tâi-lô: pok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pog
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔk̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /pʰwɑk̚/▼

Rime
Character	膊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	鐸 (104)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	匹各切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰwɑk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰʷɑk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰuɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰwak̚/
Li Rong	/pʰuɑk̚/
Wang Li	/pʰuɑk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰwɑk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	po

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰˤak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰaːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	膊
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pò
Middle Chinese	‹ phak ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰˁak/
English	dismember
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	膊
Reading #	1/1
No.	3485
Phonetic component	甫
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	𩔈
Old Chinese	/*pʰaːɡ/

Definitions

膊

1. (anatomy) arm; upper arm
2. (anatomy, dialectal) shoulder
3. (anatomy) upper body
4. sun-dried meat
5. (Classical Chinese) to dismember; to dismember a corpse
6. Used in 腷膊.

Compounds

打赤膊 捋胳膊 搭膊 肐膊 肐膊肘子 肐膊腕子 肩膊 (jiānbó)

胳膊 (gēbo) 脈膊／脉膊 脫膊／脱膊 腷腷膊膊 腷膊 膊肩 膊頭／膊头 (bok3 tau4)

膊風板／膊风板 臂膊 袒膊 褡膊 褪膊 赤膊 (chìbó) 跨胳膊

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Japanese

Kanji

膊

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): はく (haku), れつ (retsu), はい (hai)
• Kun: ほじし (hojishi), あばく (abaku), さかい (sakai)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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