苞

苞	U+82DE, 苞 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82DE

← 苝
[U+82DD]

CJK Unified Ideographs

苟 →
[U+82DF]

Translingual

Han character

苞 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿心口山 (TPRU), four-corner 4471₂, composition ⿱艹包)

Derived characters

𢯿

References

KangXi: page 1023, character 4

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30789

Dae Jaweon: page 1482, character 4

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3195, character 6

Unihan data for U+82DE

Chinese

trad.		苞
simp. ^#		苞
alternative forms		笣

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 苞
Shang	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
袍	*buː
袌	buː, buːs
軳	*buː
抱	*buːʔ
勽	buːs, mɯnʔ
菢	*buːs
勹	*pruː
包	*pruː
胞	pruː, pʰruː
苞	*pruː
枹	pruː, bu, *bu
飽	*pruːʔ
泡	pʰruː, m̥ʰruːs, *bruː
炮	pʰruːs, bruː
皰	pʰruːs, bruːs
疱	pʰruːs, bruːs
跑	bruː, bruːɡ
咆	*bruː
庖	*bruː
匏	*bruː
刨	*bruː
狍	*bruː
炰	*bruː
鉋	bruː, bruːs
瓟	bruː, bruːɡ
颮	bruː, pʰruːɡ
鞄	bruː, bruːʔ, bruːs, pʰruːɡ
鮑	*bruːʔ
骲	bruːʔ, bruːs, bruːɡ, pʰoːɡ
玸	*bu
雹	*bruːɡ
窇	*bruːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pruː) : semantic 艹 + phonetic 包 (OC *pruː).

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bāo (bao¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄅㄠ
Cantonese (Jyutping): baau¹
Min Dong (BUC): bàu
Min Nan (POJ): pau / pâu / pô͘
Wu (Wiktionary): pau (T1)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bāo
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄠ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bao
  - Wade–Giles: pao¹
  - Yale: bāu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bau
  - Palladius: бао (bao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: baau¹
  - Yale: bāau
  - Cantonese Pinyin: baau¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: bao¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːu̯⁵⁵/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: bàu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pau⁵³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pau
  - Tâi-lô: pau
  - Phofsit Daibuun: paw
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /pau⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pau³³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pâu
  - Tâi-lô: pâu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: paau
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pau¹³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pô͘
  - Tâi-lô: pôo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: poo
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pɔ²³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pɔ²⁴/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: pau (T1)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɔ⁵³/

Middle Chinese: /pˠau/

Rime
Character	苞
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	布交切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠau/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚau/
Shao Rongfen	/pau/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/paɨw/
Li Rong	/pau/
Wang Li	/pau/
Bernard Karlgren	/pau/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	baau¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*pˤ<r>u/
(Zhengzhang): /*pruː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	苞
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bāo
Middle Chinese	‹ pæw ›
Old Chinese	/*pˁ<r>u/
English	reed mat for wrapping
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	苞
Reading #	1/1
No.	275
Phonetic component	勹
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	包
Old Chinese	/*pruː/

Definitions

苞

^† bulrush (for making mats and straw sandals)
^† root or stem of plants
^† growing in profusion; luxuriant; profuse
(botany) bract; bud
^† Alternative form of 包 (bāo, “to wrap up; to surround”).
a surname

Synonyms

(bud): 蕾 (lěi)

Compounds

Derived terms from 苞

含苞
含苞待放
含苞怒放
含苞未放
含苞欲放
竹苞松茂 (zhúbāosōngmào)
花苞 (huābāo)
苞子
苞木
苞桑 (bāosāng)

苞片 (bāopiàn)
苞稂
苞米
苞米棒子
苞粟
苞苴
苞苴公行
苞茅
苞藏
總苞／总苞

苞屨／苞屦
苞穀／苞谷
苞筍／苞笋
苞苴竿牘／苞苴竿牍
苞苴賄賂／苞苴贿赂
苞茅不貢／苞茅不贡
苞葉／苞叶 (bāoyè)
苞藏禍心／苞藏祸心
苞蟲／苞虫
開苞／开苞 (kāibāo)

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): páo (pao²)
(Zhuyin): ㄆㄠˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: páo
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄠˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: páo
  - Wade–Giles: pʻao²
  - Yale: páu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: paur
  - Palladius: пао (pao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɑʊ̯³⁵/

Definitions

苞

^† Alternative form of 匏 (páo, “gourd”).

Pronunciation 3

Mandarin
(Pinyin): biāo (biao¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄠ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: biāo
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄠ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: biao
  - Wade–Giles: piao¹
  - Yale: byāu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biau
  - Palladius: бяо (bjao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pjɑʊ̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

苞

^† Alternative form of 藨 (biāo, “bulrush”).

Japanese

Kanji

苞

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

husk
bract
straw wrapper
souvenir gift
bribe

Readings

Go-on: ひょう (hyō)^{←へう (feu, historical)}
Kan-on: ほう (hō)^{←はう (fau, historical)}
Kun: つと (tsuto, 苞)
Nanori: しげる (shigeru)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
苞
ほう Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Pronunciation

On’yomi: Kan’on

(Tokyo) ほー [hóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
IPA^(key): [ho̞ː]

Noun

苞(ほう) • (hō) ^{←はう (fau)^?}

(botany) bract

Synonyms

苞葉(ほうよう) (hōyō)

Derived terms

総苞(そうほう) (sōhō, “involucre”)

References

2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

苞 • (po) (hangeul 포, revised po, McCune–Reischauer p'o, Yale pho)

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Vietnamese

Nom glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pruː) : semantic 艹 (thảo, “grass (radical form)”) + phonetic 包 (bao).

Han character

苞: Hán Việt readings: bao[1][2][3]
苞: Nôm readings: bèo[4][5], bào[6], vầu

Nôm form of bèo (“duckweed”).

References

Trần (1999).
Nguyễn (1974).
Thiều Chửu (1942).
Nguyễn (2014).
Nguyễn et al. (2009).
Trần (2004).

[DJR-1] 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[tvctdhv-2] Trần (1999).

[hvttd-3] Nguyễn (1974).

[tchvtd-4] Thiều Chửu (1942).

[tdcndg-5] Nguyễn (2014).

[tdcntd-6] Nguyễn et al. (2009).

[gdhn-7] Trần (2004).