埠

See also: 埔

埠 U+57E0, 埠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-57E0 ← 域いき [U+57DF] CJK Unified Ideographs 埡 → [U+57E1]

Translingual

Han character

埠 (Kangxi radical 32, 土ど+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土ど竹ちく口こう十じゅう (GHRJ), four-corner 4714₇, composition ⿰土ど阜)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 230, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5161
• Dae Jaweon: page 466, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 454, character 6
• Unihan data for U+57E0

Chinese

simp. and trad.		埠
alternative forms		⿱垖十 埗 (bou6) Cantonese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
阜	*buʔ
埠	*baːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲けいせい／形声けいせい, OC *baːs) : semantic 土ど (“earth”) + phonetic 阜 (OC *buʔ).

Etymology

A late formation (後こう起おこり字じ). Earlier forms of southern Chinese toponyms using the character were often written with the homophone 步ふ (MC buH) in historical records dated from the Northern Wei to Ming dynasties, which has been conjectured to be a transcription of an earlier Kra-Dai word (Kang, 2010). Cf. 墟 (xū, “market”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bù, fù (bu⁴, fu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ, ㄈㄨˋ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): fau⁶ / bou⁶

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): feu⁵

• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): phu

  (Meixian, Guangdong): fêu⁴

• Eastern Min (BUC): buô
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): po͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bou¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶bu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bù
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bù
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴
    • Yale: bù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buh
    • Palladius: бу (bu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, variant in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
    • 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: fau⁶ / bou⁶
    • Yale: fauh / bouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fau⁶ / bou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: feo⁶ / bou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐu̯²²/, /pou̯²²/

Note:

• fau6 - literary;
• bou6 - vernacular.

• (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  • Wiktionary: feu⁵
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /feu³²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phu
    • Hakka Romanization System: pu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: pu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /pʰu⁵⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: fêu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /feu⁵³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: buô
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puɔ²⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: po͘
    • Tâi-lô: poo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pof
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pɔ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɔ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pɔ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pɔ⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bou¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pou
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pou³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶bu
    • MiniDict: bu^去さ
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³bu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /bu²³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*baːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	埠
Reading #	1/1
No.	3534
Phonetic component	阜
Rime group	魚さかな
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	捕と
Old Chinese	/*baːs/
Notes	人ひと步ふ今いま分ぶん別べつ唐とう字じ

Definitions

埠

1. pier; wharf; dock
2. port city
3. commercial or trading port
4. city; town

   外そと埠  ―  wàibù  ―  other cities

   埠仔こ [Cantonese]  ―  fau⁶ zai² [Jyutping]  ―  small city; small town

Usage notes

• Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian (《现代汉语规范词典》) proscribes the use of the pronunciations fù and fǔ.
• Historically used as a suffix for many foreign port cities, such usage is now obsolete and replaced with 市し (shì, “city”).

Synonyms

• (pier):

• 埠頭ふとう／埠头
• 步ふ頭あたま／步ふ头 (bùtóu)
• 港みなと埠 (gǎngbù)
• 碼頭／码头
• 船ふね埠 (chuánbù)
• 路頭ろとう／路みち头 (Hokkien)
• 輪わ埠／轮埠 (lúnbù)

 

Compounds

• 下しも查埠
• 倉くら埠／仓埠 (Cāngbù)
• 做埠頭ふとう／做埠头
• 叻埠 (La̍t-po͘, “Singapore”) (Min Nan, dated)
• 商しょう埠 (shāngbù)
• 四よん十じゅう埠 (Sìshíbù)
• 圩埠
• 埠河 (Bùhé)
• 埠稅／埠税
• 埠頭ふとう／埠头
• 外そと埠 (wàibù)
• 大だい埠 (Dàbù)
• 宋そう埠
• 官かん埠橋／官かん埠桥 (Guānbùqiáo)
• 實じつ叻埠／实叻埠 (Si̍t-la̍t-po͘, “Singapore”) (Min Nan, dated)
• 岷埠 (Bîn-po͘, “Manila”) (Min Nan, dated)
• 市し埠
• 本ほん埠 (běnbù)
• 李り埠 (Lǐbù)
• 橫よこ埠／横よこ埠 (Héngbù)
• 水みず埠
• 河かわ埠
• 港みなと埠 (gǎngbù)
• 瓦かわら埠 (Wǎbù)
• 石いし叻埠 (Sit-la̍t-po͘, “Singapore”) (Min Nan, dated)
• 石いし埠 (Shíbù)
• 船ふね埠 (chuánbù)
• 草くさ埠湖 (Cǎobùhú)
• 華はな埠／华埠 (huábù, “Chinatown”)
• 蚌埠
• 通とおり都と大だい埠
• 長江ながえ埠／长江埠 (Chángjiāngbù)
• 開ひらき埠／开埠 (kāibù)
• 香こう埠
• 高こう埠
• 魚さかな埠／鱼埠

 

Japanese

Kanji

埠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぶ (bu)
• Kan-on: ほ (ho)
• Kan’yō-on: ふ (fu)
• Kun: つか (tsuka, 埠); はとば (hatoba, 埠)

Korean

Hanja

埠 • (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune–Reischauer pu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

埠: Hán Nôm readings: phụ

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References

• Nom Foundation