抱

See also: 抔
抱 U+62B1, 抱
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-62B1
← 抰
[U+62B0] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 抲 →
[U+62B2]

Translingual

Stroke order
Japanese 抱
Simplified 抱
Traditional 抱

Han character

抱 (radical 64, 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手心口山 (QPRU), four-corner 57012, composition ⿰扌包)

  1. embrace, hold in arms, enfold

References

  • KangXi: page 423, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11917
  • Dae Jaweon: page 771, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1856, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+62B1

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 抱

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 抱
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Qin slip script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (勹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
袍 *buː
袌 *buː, *buːs
軳 *buː
抱 *buːʔ
勽 *buːs, *mɯnʔ
菢 *buːs
勹 *pruː
包 *pruː
胞 *pruː, *pʰruː
苞 *pruː
枹 *pruː, *bu, *bu
飽 *pruːʔ
泡 *pʰruː, *m̥ʰruːs, *bruː
炮 *pʰruːs, *bruː
皰 *pʰruːs, *bruːs
疱 *pʰruːs, *bruːs
跑 *bruː, *bruːɡ
咆 *bruː
庖 *bruː
匏 *bruː
刨 *bruː
狍 *bruː
炰 *bruː
鉋 *bruː, *bruːs
瓟 *bruː, *bruːɡ
颮 *bruː, *pʰruːɡ
鞄 *bruː, *bruːʔ, *bruːs, *pʰruːɡ
鮑 *bruːʔ
骲 *bruːʔ, *bruːs, *bruːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
玸 *bu
雹 *bruːɡ
窇 *bruːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *buːʔ) : semantic 手 (“扌”) + phonetic 包 (OC *pruː) – hold in one’s hands. Note that 包 has the meaning of “wrap”, hence connotations of “wrap in one’s hands, embrace”.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • phǒ͘/phō - literary;
  • phǒ/phǎu/phāu/pǎu/pāu - vernacular;
  • pō - unknown dialect.
Rime
Character 抱
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 薄浩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bɑuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bɑuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /bɑuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /bawX/
Li
Rong		 /bɑuX/
Wang
Li		 /bɑuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱɑuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bào
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 抱
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bào
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bawX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[m-p]ˤuʔ/
English carry in the arms

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 抱
Reading # 1/1
No. 268
Phonetic
component		 勹
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 抱
Old
Chinese		 /*buːʔ/

Definitions

抱

  1. to heft in the arms; to carry
  2. to hug; to embrace
  3. (Sichuan) to incubate

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

抱

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

抱 • (po) (hangeul 포, revised po, McCune–Reischauer p'o, Yale pho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

抱 (bão)

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