菠

菠 U+83E0, 菠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-83E0 ← 菟 [U+83DF] CJK Unified Ideographs 菡 → [U+83E1]

Translingual

Han character

菠 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 12 strokes in traditional Chinese, 11 strokes in simplified Chinese and Japanese, cangjie input 廿水木水 (TEDE), four-corner 4414₇, composition ⿱艹波)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1038, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31190
• Dae Jaweon: page 1496, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3240, character 5
• Unihan data for U+83E0

Chinese

trad.		菠
simp. #		菠

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
陂	*pral, *prals
詖	*pral, *prals
彼	*pralʔ
柀	*pralʔ
佊	*pralʔ, *prals
貱	*prals
跛	*prals, *paːlʔ
披	*pʰral, *pʰralʔ
鈹	*pʰral
帔	*pʰral, *pʰrals
鮍	*pʰral
耚	*pʰral
狓	*pʰral
翍	*pʰral
旇	*pʰral, *brals
秛	*pʰral, *pʰrals
紴	*pʰralʔ, *paːl
皮	*bral
疲	*bral
被	*bralʔ, *brals
髲	*brals
鞁	*brals
骳	*mbralʔ
波	*paːl
碆	*paːl, *baːl
菠	*paːl
簸	*paːlʔ, *paːls
駊	*paːlʔ, *pʰaːlʔ
頗	*pʰaːl, *pʰaːlʔ, *pʰaːls
坡	*pʰaːl
玻	*pʰaːl
破	*pʰaːls
婆	*baːl
蔢	*baːl

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bō (bo¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bo¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): po͘ / po / pe / poe

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bo¹ / buê¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹pu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bō
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bo
    • Wade–Giles: po¹
    • Yale: bwō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bo
    • Palladius: бо (bo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bo¹
    • Yale: bō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bo¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɔː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: po͘
    • Tâi-lô: poo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pof
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: po
    • Tâi-lô: po
    • Phofsit Daibuun: poy
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pɤ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /po³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /po⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Taipei, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pe
    • Tâi-lô: pe
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pef
    • IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /pe⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: poe
    • Tâi-lô: pue
    • Phofsit Daibuun: poef
    • IPA (Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou): /pue⁴⁴/

Note:

• po͘ - literary (Quanzhou);
• po - literary (Xiamen, Taiwan, Zhangzhou);
• po - vernacular (Quanzhou);
• pe/poe - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: bo¹ / buê¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: po / pue
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /po³³/, /pue³³/

Note: buê1 - used in 菠薐.

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹pu
    • MiniDict: pu^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹pu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pu⁵³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*paːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	菠
Reading #	1/1
No.	9722
Phonetic component	皮
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	波
Old Chinese	/*paːl/

Definitions

菠

1. Used in compounds.

Compounds

• 菠菜 (bōcài)
• 菠薐 (bōléng)
• 菠薐菜 (bōléngcài)
• 菠蘿 / 菠萝 (bōluó)
• 菠蘿蜜 / 菠萝蜜 (bōluómì)

 

Japanese

Kanji

菠

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. spinach

Readings

• Go-on: は (ha)
• Kan-on: は (ha)
• Kan’yō-on: ほ (ho)
• Kun: ほうれんそう (hōrensō)

Korean

Hanja

菠 • (pa) (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune–Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

菠: Hán Nôm readings: ba

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