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霸

See also: 覇
霸 U+9738, 霸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9738
← 霷
[U+9737] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 霹 →
[U+9739]

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

霸 (radical 173, 雨+13, 21 strokes, cangjie input 一月廿十月 (MBTJB), four-corner 10527, composition ⿱⻗䩗)

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: page 1379, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42490
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1888, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4077, character 19
  • Unihan data for U+9738

ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.
 霸
variant forms 𫕠 second round simplified

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 霸
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script
     
Characters in the same phonetic series (霸) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
壩 *praːɡs
霸 *praːɡs
灞 *praːɡs
欛 *praːɡs

Etymology 1Edit

Exoactive or transitive of 伯 (OC *praːɡ, “be the eldest”) (Schuessler, 2007).

PronunciationEdit

Rime
Character 霸
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 麻 (98)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 必駕切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pˠaH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pᵚaH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/paH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/paɨH/
Li
Rong 		/paH/
Wang
Li 		/paH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/paH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bà
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 霸
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bà
Middle
Chinese 		‹ pæH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*pˁrak-s/
English have hegemony

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 霸
Reading # 1/1
No. 181
Phonetic
component 		霸
Rime
group 		暮
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		霸
Old
Chinese 		/*praːɡs/

DefinitionsEdit

霸

  1. to dominate
  2. (historical) overlord
  3. tyrant; despot; hegemon; bully
  4. hegemony; tyranny
  5. to occupy (clarification of this definition is needed)
    霸機 / 霸机  ―  bàjī  ―  to stage a sit-in after a plane has landed
    霸位 [Cantonese]  ―  baa3 wai6-2 [Jyutping]  ―  to reserve a seat for someone who has not yet arrived
  6. (Min Dong) powerful; awesome; impressive
    伊野霸 [Min Dong]  ―  ĭ iā-*bà / [i⁵⁵ ia³³⁻²¹ pa⁵³] [Bàng-uâ-cê / IPA]  ―  s/he is awesome

CompoundsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Same word as 魄 (OC *pʰraːɡ, “soul”) and cognate with 白 (OC *braːɡ, “white”) (Schuessler, 2007).

PronunciationEdit

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 霸
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		pò
Middle
Chinese 		‹ phæk ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[pʰˁ]rak/
English new moon

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.

DefinitionsEdit

霸

  1. † new moon; moonlight in the beginning of a lunar month

JapaneseEdit

Shinjitai

覇

Kyūjitai

霸

KanjiEdit

霸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 覇)

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ReadingsEdit

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

霸 • (pae, pa, baek) (hangeul 패, 파, 백, revised pae, pa, baek, McCune–Reischauer p'ae, p'a, paek, Yale phay, pha, payk)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

霸 (bá, phách)

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