仆

See also: 僕ぼく and 사

仆 U+4EC6, 仆 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EC6 ← 仅 [U+4EC5] CJK Unified Ideographs 仇かたき → [U+4EC7]

Translingual

Japanese	仆/僕ぼく
Simplified	仆/仆
Traditional	仆/僕ぼく

Han character

Stroke order

仆 (Kangxi radical 9, 人ひと+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 人ひと卜ぼく (OY), four-corner 2320₀, composition ⿰亻卜ぼく)

Derived characters

• 𢪗, 𱥸, 𥾾, 𱐸, 𦬙, 䇚, 𨳢

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 91, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 354
• Dae Jaweon: page 193, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 108, character 3
• Unihan data for U+4EC6

Chinese

simp. and trad.		仆
alternative forms		扑

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 仆
Small seal script s05870
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (卜ぼく) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
仆	*pʰoːɡs, *pʰus, *pʰoɡs, *bɯːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
赴	*pʰoɡs
訃ふ	*pʰoɡs
朴ほお	*pʰroːɡ
圤	*pʰroːɡ
卜ぼく	*poːɡ
鳪	*poːɡ
扑	*pʰoːɡ
攴	*pʰoːɡ, *pʰroːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲けいせい／形声けいせい, OC *pʰoːɡs, *pʰus, *pʰoɡs, *bɯːɡ, *pʰoːɡ) : semantic 人ひと + phonetic 卜ぼく (OC *poːɡ).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pū, fù (pu¹, fu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄨ, ㄈㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu⁶ / puk¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phuk
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phak
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁵pheu

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pū
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pu
    • Wade–Giles: pʻu¹
    • Yale: pū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pu
    • Palladius: пу (pu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, variant)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fù
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fù
    • Wade–Giles: fu⁴
    • Yale: fù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuh
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fu⁶ / puk¹
    • Yale: fuh / pūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu⁶ / puk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu⁶ / pug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː²²/, /pʰʊk̚⁵/

Note:

• fu6 - literary;
• puk1 - colloquial.

• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phuk
    • Hakka Romanization System: pug`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: pug⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /pʰuk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phak
    • Tâi-lô: phak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phag
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pʰak̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰak̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰak̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰak̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰak̚³²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁵pheu
    • MiniDict: pheu^去さ
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²pheu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pʰɤ³⁴/

---

• Middle Chinese: phjuH, phjuwH, phuwH, bok

Rime
Character	仆	仆	仆	仆
Reading #	1/4	2/4	3/4	4/4
Initial (聲こえ)	滂 (2)	滂 (2)	滂 (2)	並なみ (3)
Final (韻いん)	虞おそれ (24)	尤ゆう (136)	侯ほう (137)	德とく (131)
Tone (調しらべ)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Closed	Open	Open	Open
Division (等ひとし)	III	III	I	I
Fanqie	芳かおる遇ぐう切きり	敷じき救すくい切きり	匹ひき候こう切きり	蒲がま北きた切きり
Baxter	phjuH	phjuwH	phuwH	bok
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨoH/	/pʰɨuH/	/pʰəuH/	/bək̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰioH/	/pʰiuH/	/pʰəuH/	/bək̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰioH/	/pʰiəuH/	/pʰəuH/	/bək̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰuə̆H/	/pʰuwH/	/pʰəwH/	/bək̚/
Li Rong	/pʰioH/	/pʰiuH/	/pʰuH/	/bək̚/
Wang Li	/pʰĭuH/	/pʰĭəuH/	/pʰəuH/	/bək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰi̯uH/	/pʰi̯ə̯uH/	/pʰə̯uH/	/bʱək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fù	fòu	pòu	bó
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu3	fau3	pau3	bak6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰ(r)ok-s/, /*pʰok-s/, /*pʰˤ(r)ok-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰoːɡs/, /*pʰus/, /*pʰoɡs/, /*bɯːɡ/, /*pʰoːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	仆	仆	仆
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pū	pū	pū
Middle Chinese	‹ phjuH ›	‹ phjuwH ›	‹ phuwH ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰ(r)ok-s/	/*pʰok-s/	/*pʰˁ(r)ok-s/
English	fall prostrate	fall prostrate	fall prostrate
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	仆	仆	仆	仆	仆
Reading #	1/5	2/5	3/5	4/5	5/5
No.	990	991	994	997	1002
Phonetic component	卜ぼく	卜ぼく	卜ぼく	卜ぼく	卜ぼく
Rime group	候こう	幽かそけ	竇	職しょく	屋や
Rime subdivision	0	1	0	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	仆	副ふく	赴	菔	扑
Old Chinese	/*pʰoːɡs/	/*pʰus/	/*pʰoɡs/	/*bɯːɡ/	/*pʰoːɡ/

Definitions

仆

1. to fall forward
2. to lie prostrate; prone

Compounds

• 一いち仆一碌ろく
• 仆地 (pūde)
• 仆然
• 仆街
• 偃仆
• 僵仆
• 前ぜん仆後繼こうけい／前ぜん仆后继 (qiánpūhòujì)
• 前ぜん仆後起おこり
• 屢仆屢起／屡しばしば仆屡起おこり
• 攧攧仆仆
• 此仆彼かれ起おこり
• 顛仆

 

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 仆 – see 僕ぼく (“servant; slave; I; me; your humble servant; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of 僕ぼく).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji

仆

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Readings

• Go-on: ふ (fu); ぼく (boku)
• Kan-on: ふ (fu); ほく (hoku)
• Kun: たおれる (taoreru, 仆れる)

Korean

Hanja

仆 (eum 부 (bu))

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Vietnamese

Han character

仆: Hán Nôm readings: bộc, phó

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.