蒲

蒲 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿水戈月 (TEIB), four-corner 4412₇, composition ⿱艹浦)

1. bulrush, cattail, reed
2. vine
3. various rivers and places

• 𱠿, 𰯡, 𨆶, 𰽏, 𩟢, 𪇨

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1049, character 37
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31611
• Dae Jaweon: page 1511, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3269, character 11
• Unihan data for U+84B2

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *baː) : semantic 艹 (“vegetation”) + phonetic 浦 (OC *pʰaːʔ).

蒲

1. calamus; cattail
2. Short for 菖蒲 (chāngpú, “Acorus calamus”).
3. Short for 香蒲 (“Typha orientalis”).
4. Short for 蒲葵 (púkuí, “Livistona chinensis”).
5. Used in 蒲桃 (pútáo).
6. a surname

   蒲松齡／蒲松龄  ―  Pú Sōnglíng  ―  Pu Songling (author of Liaozhai zhiyi)

(water plant):

• → Tangut: 𘀔 (*phu¹)

From the vernacular reading of 浮 (pou4).

蒲

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to appear

   蒲頭／蒲头 [Hong Kong Cantonese]  ―  pou⁴ tau⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  (of a person) to show up

2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to party; to leisure

   Synonym: wet

• “蒲”, 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–

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. bulrush, reed

• Go-on: ぶ (bu)
• Kan-on: ほ (ho)
• Kun: がま (gama, 蒲)、かま (kama, 蒲)、かば (kaba, 蒲)

蒲(がま) or 蒲(ガマ) • (gama) 

1. common cattail, Typha latifolia

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary).

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

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蒲: Hán Việt readings: bồ
蒲: Hán Nôm readings: bồ, bù, mồ

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