蹼

蹼 U+8E7C, 蹼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8E7C ← 蹻 [U+8E7B] CJK Unified Ideographs 蹽 → [U+8E7D]

Translingual

Han character

蹼 (Kangxi radical 157, 足+12, 19 strokes, cangjie input 口一廿金人 (RMTCO), four-corner 6213₄, composition ⿰𧾷菐)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1234, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37889
• Dae Jaweon: page 1706, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3739, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8E7C

Chinese

trad.		蹼
simp. #		蹼

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
樸	*baː, *pʰroːɡ, *poːɡ, *boːɡ
璞	*pʰroːɡ
墣	*pʰroːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
撲	*broːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
轐	*poːɡ, *buːɡ
獛	*poːɡ
蹼	*poːɡ
襆	*poːɡ, *boɡ
濮	*poːɡ
纀	*poːɡ
醭	*pʰoːɡ
僕	*boːɡ, *buːɡ
菐	*boːɡ, *puɡ
穙	*boːɡ
鏷	*buːɡ
幞	*boɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *poːɡ) : semantic 足 (“foot”) + phonetic 菐 (OC *boːɡ, *puɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pǔ, pú

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄨˇ, ㄆㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): buk⁶
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): porh⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pǔ
    • Wade–Giles: pʻu³
    • Yale: pǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: puu
    • Palladius: пу (pu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pú
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pú
    • Wade–Giles: pʻu²
    • Yale: pú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pwu
    • Palladius: пу (pu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: buk⁶
    • Yale: buhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: buk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʊk̚²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: porh⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɒʔ¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: porh⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɒʔ²/

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• Middle Chinese: puwk

Rime
Character	蹼
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	屋 (3)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	博木切
Baxter	puwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/puk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/puk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/puk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pəwk̚/
Li Rong	/puk̚/
Wang Li	/puk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/puk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	buk1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*poːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蹼
Reading #	1/1
No.	9887
Phonetic component	菐
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	卜
Old Chinese	/*poːɡ/

Definitions

蹼

1. web; the membrane-like part between toes (of animals)

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “蹼”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 179.

Japanese

Kanji

蹼

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ほく (hoku)
• Kan-on: ほく (hoku)
• Kan’yō-on: ぼく (boku)
• Kun: みずかき (mizukaki)

Korean

Hanja

蹼 • (bok) (hangeul 복, revised bok, McCune–Reischauer pok, Yale pok)

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