匏

匏	U+530F, 匏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-530F

Translingual

Han character

匏 (Kangxi radical 20, 勹+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 大尸心口山 (KSPRU), four-corner 4721₂, composition ⿰夸包)

Derived characters

𫉌

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 151, character 33
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2544
Dae Jaweon: page 341, character 17
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 542, character 4
Unihan data for U+530F

Chinese

simp. and trad.		匏

Glyph origin

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

Etymology

Cognate with 瓢 (OC *bew, “gourd; dried gourd ladle”), as well as Proto-Lolo-Burmese *pu (“pumpkin, gourd”), whence Burmese ဘူး (bhu:, “gourd”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): páo (pao²)

(Zhuyin): ㄆㄠˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): paau⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pâu / pû

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: páo
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄠˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: páo
  - Wade–Giles: pʻao²
  - Yale: páu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: paur
  - Palladius: пао (pao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɑʊ̯³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: paau⁴
  - Yale: pàauh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: paau⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: pao⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰaːu̯²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pâu
  - Tâi-lô: pâu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: paau
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /pau²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pau¹³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pû
  - Tâi-lô: pû
  - Phofsit Daibuun: puu
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pu²³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pu¹³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /pu²⁴/

Note:

pâu - literary;
pû - vernacular.

Middle Chinese: baew

Rime
Character	匏
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	薄交切
Baxter	baew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠau/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚau/
Shao Rongfen	/bau/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/baɨw/
Li Rong	/bau/
Wang Li	/bau/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱau/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	páo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	paau⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ˤru/

(Zhengzhang): /*bruː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	匏
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	páo
Middle Chinese	‹ bæw ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˁru/
English	gourd
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	匏
Reading #	1/1
No.	288
Phonetic component	勹
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	庖
Old Chinese	/*bruː/

Definitions

匏

gourd
one of the eight categories of musical instruments in the Chinese bayin (八音) classification system, most prominently including mouth organs

Compounds

匏仔 (pû-á) (Min Nan)
匏尊 (páozūn)
匏崙／匏仑 (Páolún)
匏瓜 (páoguā)
匏繫／匏系 (páoxì)
細漢偷挽匏，大漢偷牽牛／细汉偷挽匏，大汉偷牵牛 (sè-hàn thau bán pû, tōa-hàn thau khan gû) (Min Nan)

Japanese

Kanji

匏

(Hyōgai kanji)

gourd

Readings

On (unclassified): ほう (hō)
Kun: ひさご (hisago)

Korean

Hanja

匏 • (po) (hangeul 포, revised po, McCune–Reischauer p'o)

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Vietnamese

Han character

匏 (bào, bầu)