俘

俘	U+4FD8, 俘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4FD8

Translingual edit

Han character edit

俘 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 人月弓木 (OBND), four-corner 2224₇, composition ⿰亻孚)

prisoner of war
take as prisoner

References edit

Kangxi Dictionary: page 105, character 12
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 697
Dae Jaweon: page 222, character 1
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 164, character 2
Unihan data for U+4FD8

Chinese edit

simp. and trad.		俘

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character 俘

Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)

Oracle bone script

Bronze inscriptions

Chu slip and silk script

Qin slip script

Small seal script

**Oracle bone script**
j19199	j19200	j19201	j19202

**Bronze inscriptions**
b12410

**Small seal script**
s05882

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

	Old Chinese
殍	brɯwʔ, browʔ, *pʰuw
脬	*pʰruː
捊	bruː, buw
莩	browʔ, pʰuw
哹	pu, bu
浮	*bu
蜉	*bu
桴	bu, pʰuw
罦	bu, pʰuw
琈	*bu
粰	*bu
烰	*bu
艀	*bu
俘	*pʰuw
孚	*pʰuw
孵	*pʰuw
稃	*pʰuw
郛	*pʰuw
筟	*pʰuw

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰuw) : semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 孚 (OC *pʰuw, “to capture”) – to capture. Originally written 孚.

Pronunciation edit

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fú (fu²)

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fu¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hû / hu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fú
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fú
  - Wade–Giles: fu²
  - Yale: fú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
  - Palladius: фу (fu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: fu¹
  - Yale: fū
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fu¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: fu¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hû
  - Tâi-lô: hû
  - Phofsit Daibuun: huu
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hu²³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen): /hu²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hu¹³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hu
  - Tâi-lô: hu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hw
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hu⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: phju

Rime
Character	俘
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	芳無切
Baxter	phju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰio/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰuə̆/
Li Rong	/pʰio/
Wang Li	/pʰĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu¹