婦

See also: 妇
婦 U+5A66, 婦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A66
← 婥
[U+5A65] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 婧 →
[U+5A67]

Translingual

Han character

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

Descendants

References

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

Chinese

trad. 婦
simp. 妇

Glyph origin

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.

Pronunciation

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 (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～
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		 /bɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /biuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /biəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /buwX/
Li
Rong		 /biuX/
Wang
Li		 /bĭəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fòu
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

婦

  1. married woman
  2. woman
  3. wife

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

婦

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. lady

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

婦 • (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune–Reischauer pu)

  1. married women
  2. woman
  3. wife

Derived terms

Vietnamese

Han character

婦 (phụ, vợ)

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