俸

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 奉 – personal wages.

Han character

俸 (radical 9 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人手大手 (OQKQ), four-corner 2525₃, composition ⿰亻奉)

1. wages, salary, official emolument

References

• KangXi: page 106, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 734
• Dae Jaweon: page 227, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 169, character 16
• Unihan data for U+4FF8

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Cantonese

Hanzi

俸 (Yale fung2, fung6)

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Japanese

Kanji

俸 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ほう (hō)
• Kun: ふち (fuchi)

Noun

俸 (hiragana ほう, romaji hō)

1. salary

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Korean

Hanja

俸 (hangeul 봉, revised bong, McCune-Reischauer pong)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

俸 (pinyin fèng (feng4), Wade-Giles feng⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

俸 (bổng, bóng, bỗng, vụng, bống, phỗng)

References

• Nom Foundation