Wiktionary

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]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

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

Derived characters edit

Descendants edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: 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

Chinese edit

trad. 婦
simp. 妇*

Glyph origin edit

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

Etymology edit

Compare Tibetan བག་མ (bag ma, “bride”) (Hill, 2019).

Pronunciation edit

Note:
  • fu5 - literary;
  • pou5 - colloquial (新婦).
Note:
  • hū - literary;
  • bṳ̀ - colloquial.
Note:
  • hô - literary;
  • bô - colloquial (新婦).
Note:
  • hū/hǔ - literary;
  • pū/pǔ - colloquial (新婦).
Note:
  • hu6 - literary;
  • bu6 - colloquial (新婦).
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 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/
Tunxi /fu²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /fu⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ɸu²¹/
Gan Nanchang /fu²¹/
Hakka Meixian /fu⁵³/
Taoyuan /fu⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /fu²³/
Nanning /fu²⁴/
/pʰu²⁴/
Hong Kong /fu¹³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /hu²²/
/pu²²/ 新～
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /hou²⁴²/
/pou²⁴²/ 新～
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /xu⁴⁴/
/py⁴²/
Shantou (Teochew) /hu³⁵/
/pu³⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /fu³³/
/ʔbu³³/ 新～
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
Baxter bjuwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/bɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/biuX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/biəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/buwX/
Li
Rong 		/biuX/
Wang
Li 		/bĭəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/bʱi̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		fòu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fau6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 婦
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		fù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ bjuwX ›
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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 婦
Reading # 1/1
No. 17550
Phonetic
component 		帚
Rime
group 		之
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		婦
Old
Chinese 		/*bɯʔ/

Definitions edit

婦

  1. married woman
    少婦／少妇  ―  shàofù  ―  young married woman
  2. woman
    婦孺／妇孺  ―  fùrú  ―  women and children
  3. wife
    夫婦／夫妇  ―  fūfù  ―  husband and wife

Compounds edit

Descendants edit

  • →? Proto-Vietic: *-bəːʔ
    • Viet-Muong:
      • Muong: bợ, vợ
      • Middle Vietnamese: 𡞕 (ꞗợ), 𡢼 (ꞗợ)

References edit

Japanese edit

Shinjitai 婦
Kyūjitai
[1]
婦󠄁
婦+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1) 		 
婦󠄃
婦+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji edit

婦

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. lady
  2. woman

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Compounds

References edit

  1. ^ “婦”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎[1] (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015–2024

Korean edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Chinese 婦 (MC bjuwX). Recorded as Middle Korean 부〮 (pwú) (Yale: pwu) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja edit

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

婦 (eumhun 아내 부 (anae bu))

  1. Hanja form? of 부 (“married woman; lady; wife”).

Derived terms edit

Compounds

References edit

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

婦: Hán Nôm readings: phụ, vợ

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