寶
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Translingual
| Japanese | 宝 |
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| Simplified | 宝 |
| Traditional | 寶 |
Han character
寶 (radical 40, 宀+17, 20 strokes, cangjie input 十一山金 (JMUC), four-corner 30806, composition ⿱𡩧貝)
Derived characters
Descendants
- 宝 (Japanese shinjitai and simplified Chinese)
References
- KangXi: page 293, character 12
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7376
- Dae Jaweon: page 579, character 32
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 958, character 3
- Unihan data for U+5BF6
Chinese
| trad. | 寶 | |
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| simp. | 宝 | |
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Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (缶) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 寶 | *puːʔ |
| 珤 | *puːʔ |
| 缶 | *puʔ |
| 缹 | *puʔ |
Oracle bone script: Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 宀 (“house”) + 王 (“jade”) + 貝 (“cowry”) – treasures in a house.
The phonetic component 缶 (OC *puʔ) was added to the character in bronze inscriptions.
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pəw (“price”); cognate with Burmese အဖိုး (a.hpui:, “price”) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT). Peiros and Starostin (1996) also compares it to Tibetan སྤུས (spus, “goods”). Sagart (1999) relates it to 富 (OC *pɯɡs, “rich”). Schuessler (2007) proposes that it could be the same word as 保 (OC *puːʔ, “to take care of; to consider something precious”).
Pronunciation
Definitions
寶
- treasure; riches; valuables; precious thing
- to treasure; to cherish
- to collect (treasures)
- treasured; cherished
- precious; valuable
- (historical) jade token
- term of respect, for things related to the emperor, to Buddhism, to Taoism, or to other people
- (term of endearment) darling; baby; dear
- (gambling) a kind of gambling device
Compounds
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Japanese
| 宝 | |
| 寶 |
Kanji
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 宝)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
寶 • (bo) (hangeul 보, revised bo, McCune–Reischauer po)
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Vietnamese
Han character
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