縛

See also: 缚

縛 U+7E1B, 縛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E1B ← 縚 [U+7E1A] CJK Unified Ideographs 縜 → [U+7E1C]

Translingual

Han character

縛 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 女火戈月戈 (VFIBI), four-corner 2394₂, composition ⿰糹尃)

References

• KangXi: page 934, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27771
• Dae Jaweon: page 1372, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3434, character 13
• Unihan data for U+7E1B

Chinese

trad.		縛
simp.		缚

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
豧	*pʰoːs, *pʰa, *pʰas
縛	*baːɡs, *baɡ
逋	*paː
餔	*paː, *baːs
晡	*paː
庯	*paː
陠	*paː, *pʰaː
鵏	*paː, *baːs
峬	*paː
誧	*paː, *pʰaː, *pʰaːʔ, *pʰaːs
秿	*paː, *pʰa, *baʔ
鯆	*paː, *pʰaː, *paʔ
補	*paːʔ
圃	*paːʔ, *paːs
鋪	*pʰaː, *pʰaːs, *pʰa
痡	*pʰaː, *pʰa
浦	*pʰaːʔ
烳	*pʰaːʔ
溥	*pʰaːʔ, *paːɡ
悑	*pʰaːs
酺	*baː
匍	*baː
蜅	*baː, *paʔ
脯	*baː, *paʔ
葡	*baː
蒱	*baː
蒲	*baː
簿	*baːʔ, *baːɡ
捕	*baːs
哺	*baːs
簠	*pa, *paʔ, *pʰas
甫	*paʔ
黼	*paʔ
莆	*paʔ
俌	*paʔ, *pʰaʔ
郙	*paʔ, *pʰa
傅	*paɡs
搏	*paɡs, *paːɡ, *pʰaːɡ
麱	*pʰa
尃	*pʰa
榑	*ba
輔	*baʔ
鬴	*baʔ
賻	*baɡs
博	*paːɡ
髆	*paːɡ
鎛	*paːɡ
猼	*paːɡ
餺	*paːɡ
簙	*paːɡ
鑮	*paːɡ, *baːɡ
欂	*paːɡ, *baɡ, *breːɡ
蒪	*pʰaːɡ
膊	*pʰaːɡ
薄	*baːɡ
礡	*baːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *baːɡs, *baɡ): semantic 糸 (“rope”) + phonetic 尃 (OC *pʰa).

Etymology

Austroasiatic. Compare Khmer ប៉ាក់ (pak, “to embroider”), Mon ဗိုက် (“to put around esp. lower half of body”), Temiar bəg (“to bind”) (Schuessler, 2007). Alternatively, note Thai ผูก (pùuk, “to tie; to bind”) and Vietnamese buộc (“to tie; to bind”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fù, fú

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˋ, ㄈㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bok³, bok⁶, fok³, fok⁶
• Min Bei (KCR): bŏ̤
• Min Dong (BUC): buŏh
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): pa̍k / ho̍k

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bag⁸

• Wu (Wiktionary): ⁵boq; ⁵voq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fù
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fù
    • Wade–Giles: fu⁴
    • Yale: fù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuh
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fú
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fú
    • Wade–Giles: fu²
    • Yale: fú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bok³, bok⁶, fok³, fok⁶
    • Yale: bok, bohk, fok, fohk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bok⁸, bok⁹, fok⁸, fok⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bog³, bog⁶, fog³, fog⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɔːk̚³/, /pɔːk̚²/, /fɔːk̚³/, /fɔːk̚²/

Note: bok6, fok3, fok6 - variants (rare).

• Min Bei
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: bŏ̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɔ²⁴/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: buŏh
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puoʔ⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pa̍k
    • Tâi-lô: pa̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pak
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pak̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pak̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pak̚²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ho̍k
    • Tâi-lô: ho̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hok
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔk̚¹²¹/

Note:

• pa̍k - vernacular;
• ho̍k - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: bag⁸
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pa̍k
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pak̚⁴/

Wu

• (Shanghainese)
  • Wiktionary: ⁵boq; ⁵voq
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /b̥ʊʔ¹²/, /v̥ʊʔ¹²/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 縛
Mandarin	Beijing	/fu⁵¹/
	Harbin	/fu²⁴/
	Tianjin	/fu⁵³/
	Jinan	/fə⁴²/
	Qingdao	/fu⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/fu³¹²/
	Xi'an	/fo²⁴/
	Xining	/fv̩²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/fu⁵³/ /fu¹³/
	Lanzhou	/fə⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/fu²¹³/
	Wuhan	/fu⁴²/
	Chengdu	/po³¹/ /fu¹³/
	Guiyang	/po²¹/
	Kunming	/fu²¹²/
	Nanjing	/fu⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/fəʔ⁵/ /pɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/fəʔ⁵⁴/
	Pingyao	/xuʌʔ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/fəʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/boʔ¹/ /voʔ¹/
	Suzhou	/voʔ³/
	Hangzhou	/boʔ²/
	Wenzhou	/ɦo²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/fuʔ²¹/ /pɔʔ²¹/
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/po²⁴/ /xo⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/ho⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/pʰiok̚⁵/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/pɔk̚³/
	Nanning	/pɔk̚³³/
	Hong Kong	/pɔk̚³/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/hɔk̚⁵/ /pak̚⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/puoʔ⁵/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/pɔ²⁴/ /pu⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/pak̚⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/ʔbak̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: /buɑH/, /bʉɐk̚/

Rime
Character	縛	縛
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)	陽 (108)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	符臥切	符钁切
Baxter	baH	bjak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/buɑH/	/bʉɐk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/buɑH/	/bʷiɐk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/buɑH/	/biuɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bwaH/	/buak̚/
Li Rong	/buɑH/	/biuak̚/
Wang Li	/buɑH/	/bĭak̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱuɑH/	/bʱiwak̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bò	fó
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bo6	fok6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*bak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*baːɡs/, /*baɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	縛
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fù
Middle Chinese	‹ bjak ›
Old Chinese	/*bak/
English	bind (v.)
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	縛	縛
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	3409	3493
Phonetic component	甫	甫
Rime group	暮	鐸
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	縛	縛
Old Chinese	/*baːɡs/	/*baɡ/

Definitions

縛

1. to tie up; to bind; to truss
2. to attach

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 捆 (“to tie up; to bind”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		束, 縛
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		捆
Mandarin	Beijing	捆
	Jinan	捆
	Xi'an	捆
	Wuhan	捆
	Chengdu	捆, 綁
	Guilin	捆
	Yangzhou	捆
	Hefei	捆
	Singapore	綁
Cantonese	Guangzhou	綁, 紮
	Hong Kong	綁, 紮
	Yangjiang	綁, 紮, 縛
Hakka	Meixian	綁, 捆, 䌈
Jin	Taiyuan	捆
Min Bei	Jian'ou	捆
Min Dong	Fuzhou	捆, 縛
Min Nan	Xiamen	縛, 捆
	Chaozhou	捆, 縛
Wu	Suzhou	縛
	Wenzhou	捆, 縛
Xiang	Changsha	捆
	Shuangfeng	捆, 縛

Compounds

• 低頭受縛／低头受缚
• 作繭自縛／作茧自缚 (zuòjiǎnzìfú)
• 俯首就縛／俯首就缚
• 受縛／受缚
• 吐絲自縛／吐丝自缚
• 扎縛／扎缚
• 拴縛／拴缚
• 擒龍縛虎／擒龙缚虎
• 束手就縛／束手就缚
• 束縛／束缚 (shùfù)

• 束身就縛／束身就缚
• 綁縛／绑缚 (bǎngfù)
• 縛住／缚住 (fùzhù)
• 縛手縛腳／缚手缚脚
• 縛束／缚束
• 縛稿為人／缚稿为人
• 縛粽／缚粽 (pa̍k-chàng) (Min Nan)
• 縛緊／缚紧
• 縛虎手／缚虎手
• 縛雞之力／缚鸡之力

• 繫縛／系缚
• 纏縛／缠缚
• 肉袒面縛／肉袒面缚
• 自縛／自缚
• 袒縛／袒缚
• 解縛／解缚
• 面縛／面缚
• 面縛輿櫬／面缚舆榇
• 面縛銜璧／面缚衔璧

Japanese

Shinjitai	縛
Kyūjitai	縛󠄁 縛+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	縛󠄃 縛+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

縛

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. to tie, to bind

Readings

• Go-on: ばく (baku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: はく (haku)
• Kun: しばる (shibaru, 縛る, Jōyō); いましめる (imashimeru, 縛める)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 縛 (MC bʉɐk̚).

Hanja

Wikisource

縛 (eumhun 묶을 박 (mukkeul bak))

1. Hanja form^? of 박 (“tie”).

Compounds

Compounds

• 속박 (束縛, sokbak, “restraint, shackles”)
• 결박 (結縛, gyeolbak, “binding”)
• 포박 (捕縛, pobak, “apprehension”)
• 겁박 (劫縛, geopbak, “threat; blackmail”)
• 구박 (毆縛, gubak, “hit”)
• 자승자박 (自繩自縛, jaseungjabak)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese

Han character

縛: Hán Nôm readings: phược, phọc, phước

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