鏷

See also: 镤

鏷 U+93F7, 鏷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-93F7 ← 鏶 [U+93F6] CJK Unified Ideographs 鏸 → [U+93F8]

Translingual

Han character

鏷 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+12, 20 strokes, cangjie input 金廿金人 (CTCO), four-corner 8213₅, composition ⿰釒菐)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1321, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40850
• Dae Jaweon: page 1821, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4255, character 14
• Unihan data for U+93F7

Chinese

trad.		鏷
simp.		镤

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 *buːɡ) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 菐 (OC *boːɡ, *puɡ).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pú (pu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄨˊ

• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): porh⁶
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸boq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pú
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pú
    • Wade–Giles: pʻu²
    • Yale: pú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pwu
    • Palladius: пу (pu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu³⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: porh⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɒʔ¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: porh⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɒʔ²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁸boq
    • MiniDict: boh^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵boq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /boʔ¹²/

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• Middle Chinese: bowk

Rime
Character	鏷
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	沃 (6)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蒲沃切
Baxter	bowk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/buok̚/
Pan Wuyun	/buok̚/
Shao Rongfen	/bok̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bawk̚/
Li Rong	/bok̚/
Wang Li	/buok̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱuok̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	buk6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*buːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鏷
Reading #	1/1
No.	9900
Phonetic component	菐
Rime group	覺
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	僕
Old Chinese	/*buːɡ/

Definitions

鏷

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   alt. forms: 𨮓

Etymology 2

Chemical element
Pa
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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pú (pu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): buk⁶ / pok³
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸boq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • 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 / pok³
    • Yale: buhk / pok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: buk⁹ / pok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: bug⁶ / pog³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʊk̚²/, /pʰɔːk̚³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁸boq
    • MiniDict: boh^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵boq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /boʔ¹²/

Definitions

鏷

1. (chemistry) protactinium

References

• “鏷”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “镤”, 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

鏷

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ほく (hoku)、ぼく (boku)
• Kun: あらがね (aragane)