包

包	U+5305, 包 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5305

包	U+2F829, 包 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F829

← 勺
[U+2F828]

CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement

匆 →
[U+2F82A]

TranslingualEdit

Stroke order

Japanese	包
Simplified	包
Traditional	包

Alternative formsEdit

Note different Japanese and Chinese forms (center open 己 in Japanese, a closed loop 巳 in Chinese). Note also that the bottom tail extends beyond the right side (in either form).

Han characterEdit

包 (radical 20, 勹+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 心口山 (PRU), four-corner 2771₂, composition ⿻勹巳(GHTKV) or ⿻勹己(J))

Derived charactersEdit

咆, 庖, 抱, 枹, 泡, 炮, 皰, 砲, 胞, 匏, 飽, 鮑, 疱, 砲, 鞄

ReferencesEdit

KangXi: page 150, character 27
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2506
Dae Jaweon: page 340, character 2
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 257, character 6
Unihan data for U+5305

ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		包

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 包
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (勹) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
袍	*buː
袌	buː, buːs
軳	*buː
抱	*buːʔ
勽	buːs, mɯnʔ
菢	*buːs
勹	*pruː
包	*pruː
胞	pruː, pʰruː
苞	*pruː
枹	pruː, bu, *bu
飽	*pruːʔ
泡	pʰruː, m̥ʰruːs, *bruː
炮	pʰruːs, bruː
皰	pʰruːs, bruːs
疱	pʰruːs, bruːs
跑	bruː, bruːɡ
咆	*bruː
庖	*bruː
匏	*bruː
刨	*bruː
狍	*bruː
炰	*bruː
鉋	bruː, bruːs
瓟	bruː, bruːɡ
颮	bruː, pʰruːɡ
鞄	bruː, bruːʔ, bruːs, pʰruːɡ
鮑	*bruːʔ
骲	bruːʔ, bruːs, bruːɡ, pʰoːɡ
玸	*bu
雹	*bruːɡ
窇	*bruːɡ

Pronunciation 1Edit

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): bāo (bao¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄠ

(Chengdu, SP): bao¹
Cantonese
(Guangzhou, Jyutping): baau¹

(Taishan, Wiktionary): bau¹, bau^1*, bau^1-4
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pâu
Min Dong (BUC): bău
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): pau / pâu

(Teochew, Peng'im): bao¹
Wu (Wiktionary): pau (T1)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: bāo
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄠ
  - Wade–Giles: pao¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bau
  - IPA ^(key): /pɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Pinyin: bāor
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄠㄦ
  - Wade–Giles: paorh¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: baul
  - IPA ^(key): /paʊɻʷ⁵⁵/
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: bao¹
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: bao
  - IPA ^(key): /pau⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: baau¹
  - Yale: bāau
  - Cantonese Pinyin: baau¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: bao¹
  - IPA ^(key): /päːu̯⁵⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: bau¹, bau^1*, bau^1-4
  - IPA ^(key): /pau³³/, /pau³³⁻³³⁵/, /pau³³⁻²¹/

Note:

bau1 - verb;
bau1* - “bread; bun”;
bau1-4 - “bag; sack”.

Hakka

(Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pâu
- Hakka Romanization System: bau´
- Hagfa Pinyim: bau¹
- IPA: /pau̯²⁴/

Min Dong

(Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: bău
- IPA ^(key): /pau⁵⁵/

Min Nan

(Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pau
- Tâi-lô: pau
- Phofsit Daibuun: paw
- IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /paʊ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /paʊ³³/
(Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pâu
- Tâi-lô: pâu
- Phofsit Daibuun: paau
- IPA (Quanzhou, Xiamen): /paʊ²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /paʊ¹³/

Note: pâu - surname.

- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bao¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pau
  - IPA ^(key): /pau³³/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: pau (T1)
  - IPA ^(key): /pɔ⁵³/

Middle Chinese: /pˠau/▼

Rime
Character	包
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	布交切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠau/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚau/
Shao Rongfen	/pau/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/paɨw/
Li Rong	/pau/
Wang Li	/pau/
Bernard Karlgren	/pau/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bāo

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*pˤ<r>u/

(Zhengzhang): /*pruː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	包
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bāo
Middle Chinese	‹ pæw ›
Old Chinese	/*pˁ<r>u/
English	wrap, bundle
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.