婦

See also: 妇

婦	U+5A66, 婦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A66

← 婥
[U+5A65]

CJK Unified Ideographs

婧 →
[U+5A67]

婦	U+2F866, 婦 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F866

← 姘
[U+2F865]

CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement

㛮 →
[U+2F867]

TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

婦 (radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女尸一月 (VSMB), four-corner 4742₇, composition ⿰女帚)

DescendantsEdit

妇

ReferencesEdit

KangXi: page 265, character 14
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6432
Dae Jaweon: page 532, character 13
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1062, character 6
Unihan data for U+5A66

ChineseEdit

trad.		婦
simp.		妇

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 婦
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
婦	*bɯʔ
帚	*pjuʔ
箒	*pjuʔ
鯞	*pjuʔ

Two possibilities:

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *bɯʔ): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 帚 (OC *pjuʔ), as supported by the latest Old Chinese reconstructions; or
Ideogrammic compound (會意): 女 (“woman”) + 帚 (“broom”) – a woman with a broom.

PronunciationEdit

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): fù (fu⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˋ

(Chengdu, SP): fu⁴

(Dungan, Cyrillic): фу (fu, III)
Cantonese (Jyutping): fu⁵, pou⁵
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fu
Jin (Wiktionary): fu³
Min Bei (KCR): hū / bṳ̀
Min Dong (BUC): hô / bô
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): hū / hǔ / pū / pǔ

(Teochew, Peng'im): hu⁶ / bu⁶
Wu (Wiktionary): vu (T3)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: fù
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ
  - Wade–Giles: fu⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuh
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fù
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹/
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: fu⁴
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: fu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu²¹³/
- (Dungan)
  - Cyrillic: фу (fu, III)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fou⁴⁴/
  (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: fu⁵, pou⁵
  - Yale: fúh, póuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fu⁵, pou⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: fu⁵, pou⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː¹³/, /pʰou̯¹³/

Note:

fu5 - literary;
pou5 - colloquial (新婦).

Hakka

(Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fu
- Hakka Romanization System: fu
- Hagfa Pinyim: fu⁴
- Sinological IPA: /fu⁵⁵/

Jin

(Taiyuan)⁺
- Wiktionary: fu³
- Sinological IPA (old-style): /fu⁴⁵/

Min Bei

(Jian'ou)
- Kienning Colloquial Romanized: hū / bṳ̀
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu⁵⁵/, /py⁴²/

Note:

hū - literary;
bṳ̀ - colloquial.

Min Dong

(Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: hô / bô
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou²⁴²/, /pou²⁴²/

Note:

hô - literary;
bô - colloquial (新婦).

Min Nan

(Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hū
- Tâi-lô: hū
- Phofsit Daibuun: hu
- IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hu³³/
- IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hu²²/
(Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hǔ
- Tâi-lô: hǔ
- IPA (Quanzhou): /hu²²/
(Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pū
- Tâi-lô: pū
- Phofsit Daibuun: pu
- IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pu³³/
- IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pu²²/
(Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pǔ
- Tâi-lô: pǔ
- IPA (Quanzhou): /pu²²/

Note:

hū/hǔ - literary;
pū/pǔ - colloquial (新婦).

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: hu⁶ / bu⁶
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hŭ / pŭ
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /hu³⁵/, /pu³⁵/

Note:

hu6 - literary;
bu6 - colloquial (新婦).

Wu

(Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: vu (T3)
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /v̻v̩ʷ²³/

Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 婦
Mandarin	Beijing	/fu⁵¹/
	Harbin	/fu⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/fu⁵³/
	Jinan	/fu²¹/
	Qingdao	/fu²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/fu²⁴/
	Xi'an	/fu⁴⁴/
	Xining	/fv̩²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/fu¹³/
	Lanzhou	/fu¹³/
	Ürümqi	/fu²¹³/
	Wuhan	/fu³⁵/
	Chengdu	/fu¹³/
	Guiyang	/fu²¹³/
	Kunming	/fu²¹²/
	Nanjing	/fu⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/fu⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/fu⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/xu³⁵/
	Hohhot	/fu⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/vu²³/
	Suzhou	/vu³¹/
	Hangzhou	/vu¹³/
	Wenzhou	/vøy³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/fu²²/ /fu³⁵/
Hui	Tunxi	/fu²⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/fu⁵⁵/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/ɸu²¹/
Gan	Nanchang	/fu²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/fu⁵³/
Hakka	Taoyuan	/fu⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/fu²³/
	Nanning	/fu²⁴/ /pʰu²⁴/
	Hong Kong	/fu¹³/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/hu²²/ /pu²²/ 新～
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/hou²⁴²/ /pou²⁴²/ 新～
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/xu⁴⁴/ /py⁴²/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/hu³⁵/ /pu³⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/fu³³/ /ʔbu³³/ 新～

Middle Chinese: /bɨu^X/

Rime
Character	婦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	房久切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨu^X/
Pan Wuyun	/biu^X/
Shao Rongfen	/biəu^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buw^X/
Li Rong	/biu^X/
Wang Li	/bĭəu^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ə̯u^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fòu

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*mə.bəʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*bɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	婦
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fù
Middle Chinese	‹ bjuw^X ›
Old Chinese	/mə.bəʔ/ (or tsə.-? see Min)
English	woman, wife
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.