拂

See also: 払

拂 U+62C2, 拂 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-62C2 ← 拁 [U+62C1] CJK Unified Ideographs 拃 → [U+62C3]

Translingual

Han character

拂 (radical 64, 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手中中弓 (QLLN), four-corner 5502₇, composition ⿰扌弗)

1. shake off, brush away
2. a tool used for brushing away dust

References

• KangXi: page 424, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11936
• Dae Jaweon: page 772, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1859, character 4
• Unihan data for U+62C2

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		拂

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (弗) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
鄪	*prɯds
費	*prɯds, *pʰɯds, *bɯds
砩	*pads
沸	*pɯds
疿	*pɯds
茀	*pɯds, *pʰɯd
髴	*pʰɯds, *pɯd, *pʰɯd
昲	*pʰɯds
靅	*pʰɯds
狒	*buds
怫	*bɯds, *bɯd
胇	*brɯd
艴	*bɯːd, *pʰɯd
弗	*pɯd
紼	*pɯd
柫	*pɯd
笰	*pɯd
拂	*pʰɯd
刜	*pʰɯd, *bɯd
彿	*pʰɯd
佛	*bɯd
坲	*bɯd
咈	*bɯd
炥	*bɯd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fú (fu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fat¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fin
• Min Nan (POJ): hut

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: fú
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
    • Wade–Giles: fu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fú
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fat¹
    • Yale: fāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fat⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: fed¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐt̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fin
    • Hakka Romanization System: fin
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fin⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /fin⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hut
    • Tâi-lô: hut
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hud
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hut̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hut̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hut̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hut̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hut̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: /pʰɨut̚/▼

Rime
Character	拂
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	物 (60)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	敷勿切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨut̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰiut̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰiuət̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰut̚/
Li Rong	/pʰiuət̚/
Wang Li	/pʰĭuət̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰi̯uət̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fu

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰ[u]t/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰɯd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	拂
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fú
Middle Chinese	‹ phjut ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰ[u]t/
English	to brush, shake
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	拂
Reading #	1/1
No.	3318
Phonetic component	弗
Rime group	物
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	拂
Old Chinese	/*pʰɯd/

Definitions

拂

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Compounds

• 吹拂 (chuīfú)

• 拂塵／拂尘

• 拂曉／拂晓 (fúxiǎo)

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Japanese

Shinjitai	払
Kyūjitai	拂

Kanji

拂

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 払)

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Readings

• Go-on: びち (bichi); ほち (hochi)
• Kan-on: ひつ (hitsu); ふつ (futsu)
• Kan’yō-on: ほつ (hotsu)
• Kun: はらう (harau, 拂う)

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Korean

Hanja

拂 • (bul, pil) (hangeul 불, 필, revised bul, pil, McCune–Reischauer pul, p'il, Yale pul, phil)

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Vietnamese

Han character

拂 (phất, phắt, phớt, phứt, phựt)

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