褓

See also: 襤

褓 U+8913, 褓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8913 ← 褒 [U+8912] CJK Unified Ideographs 褔 → [U+8914]

Translingual

Han character

褓 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中人口木 (LORD), four-corner 3629₄, composition ⿰衤保)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1121, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34438
• Dae Jaweon: page 1588, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3103, character 11
• Unihan data for U+8913

Chinese

trad.		褓
simp. #		褓
alternative forms		緥

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
襃	*puː, *puː
保	*puːʔ
堡	*puːʔ
褓	*puːʔ
堢	*puːʔ
緥	*puːʔ
葆	*puːʔ
賲	*puːʔ
宲	*puːʔ
椺	*ɦmluːʔ, *ɢʷeːɡs, *ɢeːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǎo (bao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bou²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bǎo
    • Wade–Giles: pao³
    • Yale: bǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bao
    • Palladius: бао (bao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bou²
    • Yale: bóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: bou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pou̯³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: pawX

Rime
Character	褓
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	博抱切
Baxter	pawX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pɑuX/
Pan Wuyun	/pɑuX/
Shao Rongfen	/pɑuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pawX/
Li Rong	/pɑuX/
Wang Li	/pɑuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/pɑuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bǎo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bou2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*puːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	褓
Reading #	1/1
No.	320
Phonetic component	保
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	寶
Old Chinese	/*puːʔ/

Definitions

褓

1. (literary) swaddling clothes

   襁褓  ―  qiǎngbǎo  ―  swaddling clothes

Compounds

• 褓中物
• 褓姆 (bǎomǔ)
• 褓抱提攜／褓抱提携
• 褓母 (bǎomǔ)
• 襁褓 (qiǎngbǎo)
• 襁褓之年

 

Japanese

Kanji

褓

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ほ (ho); ほう (hō)
• Kan-on: ほう (hō)
• Kun: おしめ (oshime); おむつ (omutsu); むつき (mutsuki)

Korean

Hanja

褓 • (bo) (hangeul 보, revised bo, McCune–Reischauer po, Yale po)

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