葩

葩	U+8469, 葩 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8469

← 葨
[U+8468]

CJK Unified Ideographs

葪 →
[U+846A]

Translingual

Han character

葩 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹日山 (THAU), four-corner 4461₇, composition ⿱艹皅)

Derived characters

𡀥

References

KangXi: page 1045, character 32
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31441
Dae Jaweon: page 1507, character 4
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3251, character 6
Unihan data for U+8469

Chinese

trad.		葩
simp. ^#		葩
alternative forms		皅苩䔤𦺂

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
巴	*praː
芭	*praː
笆	praː, braːʔ
豝	*praː
鈀	praː, pʰraː
吧	praː, pʰraː
蚆	praː, pʰraː
疤	*praː
把	*praːʔ
爸	praːs, baʔ
弝	*praːs
靶	*praːs
葩	*pʰraː
舥	*pʰraː
妑	*pʰraː
帊	*pʰraːs
琶	*braː
爬	*braː
杷	braː, braːs, *braːs
跁	braːʔ, braːs
耙	*braːs

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *baːr (“bloom, flower”); compare Burmese ပန်း (pan:) or Zaiwa pan²¹. Probably the same etymon as 瓣 (OC *breːns, “petal”) (Schusessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): pā (pa¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄆㄚ
Cantonese
(Guangzhou, Jyutping): baa¹, paa¹
(Taishan, Wiktionary): ba¹
Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): ba¹
Min Dong (BUC): bă
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): pha
(Teochew, Peng'im): ba¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: pā
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: pa
  - Wade–Giles: pʻa¹
  - Yale: pā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pa
  - Palladius: па (pa)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰä⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: baa¹, paa¹
  - Yale: bā, pā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: baa¹, paa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ba¹, pa¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /paː⁵⁵/, /pʰaː⁵⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: ba¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa³³/
Hakka
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: ba¹
  - Sinological IPA: /pa⁴⁴/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: bă
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pha
  - Tâi-lô: pha
  - Phofsit Daibuun: phaf
  - IPA (Xiamen): /pʰa⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰa³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰa⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pʰa⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰa⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ba¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pa
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa³³/

Middle Chinese: /pʰˠa/

Rime
Character	葩
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	麻 (98)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	普巴切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰˠa/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰᵚa/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰa/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰaɨ/
Li Rong	/pʰa/
Wang Li	/pʰa/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰa/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pā
Expected Cantonese Reflex	paa¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*pʰraː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	葩
Reading #	1/1
No.	109
Phonetic component	巴
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	葩
Old Chinese	/*pʰraː/

Definitions

葩

^† flower
奇葩 ― qípā ― magnificent flower
^† beautiful
(Min Nan) Classifier for lamps.
一葩電火／一葩电火 [Hokkien] ― chi̍t pha tiān-hóe [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― a lamp
(Min Nan) Classifier for things that are strung together.

Compounds

丹葩
含葩
奇葩 (qípā)
百卉千葩

芬葩
奇葩異卉／奇葩异卉
揚葩振藻／扬葩振藻
殘葩／残葩

瓊葩／琼葩
紛葩／纷葩
葩經／葩经 (Pājīng)
葩華／葩华

References

“葩”, 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–
Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03532
“Entry #10005”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

Japanese

Kanji

葩

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: へ (he)
Kan-on: は (ha)
Kun: はな (hana, 葩)

Korean

Hanja

葩 (eum 파 (pa))

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Vietnamese

Han character

葩: Hán Nôm readings: ba

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