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普

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See also: 晋
普 U+666E, 普
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-666E
← 晭
[U+666D]
CJK Unified Ideographs 景 →
[U+666F]

Translingual

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Stroke order
13 strokes

Han character

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普 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+8, 12 strokes, Cangjie input 廿金日 (TCA), four-corner 80601, composition ⿱並日)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 496, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13982
  • Dae Jaweon: page 862, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1521, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+666E

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
普
alternative forms 暜

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 普
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Image

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 並 (“side by side”) + 日 (“sun”).

Etymology

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“wide; universal”
Related to 溥 (OC *pʰaːʔ).
“man”
Borrowed from Tibetan པོ (po).

Pronunciation

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Note: phú/puˊ - in 普普仔.

Rime
Character 普
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 滂古切
Baxter phuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pʰuoX/
Pan
Wuyun
/pʰuoX/
Shao
Rongfen
/pʰoX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pʰɔX/
Li
Rong
/pʰoX/
Wang
Li
/pʰuX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/pʰuoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
pǔ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
pou2
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 普
Reading # 1/1
No. 9905
Phonetic
component
普
Rime
group
魚
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
普
Old
Chinese
/*pʰaːʔ/

Definitions

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普

  1. (obsolete, of sun) lustreless
  2. universal; general; widespread
  3. wide; vast
  4. (obsolete, Tibet) adult man
  5. short for 普通話/普通话 (pǔtōnghuà, “Putonghua”)
    推普  ―  tuīpǔ  ―  to promote Putonghua
    普教中  ―  pǔjiàozhōng  ―  using Putonghua as the medium of instruction for teaching the Chinese Language Subject
  6. Used in transcription.
    普吉  ―  Pǔjí  ―  Phukhet
    聖多美和普林西比 [MSC, trad.]
    圣多美和普林西比 [MSC, simp.]
    Shèngduōměi hé Pǔlínxībǐ [Pinyin]
    São Tomé and Principe
    當勞·特朗普/当劳·特朗普  ―  Dāngláo Tèlǎngpǔ  ―  Donald Trump
    1. short for 普魯士/普鲁士 (Pǔlǔshì):
    2. (chiefly historical) Prussia (a geographical area on the Baltic coast of Northeast Europe)
    3. (historical) Prussia (a former duchy, kingdom and (after German unification in 1871) a federal state of Germany, existing from 1525 to 1947, mostly in areas now part of Germany, Poland and Russia)
      普奧戰爭/普奥战争  ―  Pǔ-Ào Zhànzhēng  ―  Austro-Prussian War
    4. short for 普洱茶 (pǔ'ěrchá, “pu'er tea”)
      菊普  ―  júpǔ  ―  chrysanthemum and pu'er tea
      熟普  ―  shúpǔ  ―  fermented pu'er
  7. a surname

Compounds

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References

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  • “普”, 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–
  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “普”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 134.

Japanese

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Kanji

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普

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. general; universal

Readings

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  • Go-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: ほ (ho)
  • Kun: あまねし (amaneshi, 普し)、あまねく (amaneku, 普く)

Compounds

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Korean

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Hanja

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普 (eumhun 넓을 보 (neolbeul bo))

  1. hanja form? of 보 (“wide, universal, general, widespread”)

Vietnamese

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Han character

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普: Hán Nôm readings: phổ, phơ

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