播

Translingual

Han character

播 (radical 64 手+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 手竹木田 (QHDW), four-corner 5206₉, composition ⿰扌番)

1. sow, spread
2. broadcast
3. case away, reject

References

• KangXi: page 456, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12747
• Dae Jaweon: page 805, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1960, character 12
• Unihan data for U+64AD

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Cantonese

Hanzi

播 (Yale bo3)

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Japanese

Kanji

播

Readings

• On: は (ha)
• Kun: まく (maku)

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Korean

Hanja

播 (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune-Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)

1. (뿌리다, ppurida): to spray, spread, scatter, sow

Synonyms

• 散 (산, san)
• 撒 (살, sal)

Derived terms

• 播種 (파종, pajong) seeding, sowing
• 傳播 (전파, jeonpa) diffusion, propagation, transfer

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

播 (pinyin bò (bo4),bō (bo1),bǒ (bo3), Wade-Giles po⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

播 (bá, vá, bạ, phăng, vả, vớ, bợ)