博

See also 愽

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 十 + phonetic 尃

Han character

博 (radical 24 十+10, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十戈月戈 (JIBI), four-corner 4304₆)

1. gamble, play games
2. wide, broad, rich, abundant, plentiful

References

• KangXi: page 157, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2761
• Dae Jaweon: page 360, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 66, character 2
• Unihan data for U+535A

---

Cantonese

Hanzi

博 (Yale bok3)

---

Japanese

Kanji

博 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: はく (haku), ばく (baku)
• Kun: ひろい (hiroi), ひろめる (hiromeru)

Proper noun

博 (hiragana ひろし, romaji Hiroshi)

1. A male given name

Suffix

博 (hiragana はく, romaji -haku)

1. doctor, PhD
2. exposition, fair

---

Korean

Hanja

博
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 박 (revised: bak, McCune-Reischauer: pak)

• Name (hangeul): 넓을()

---

Mandarin

Hanzi

博 (pinyin bó (bo2), Wade-Giles po²)

Compounds

• 博客

---

Vietnamese

Han character

博 (bác, mác, bạc, vác)